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Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur… Adjicitur dilucidatio … Editio Nova. Re-issue of the rare Latin translation first published in Utrecht, by Meinardus van Dreunen in 1684, of Swammerdam’s famous work on the metamorphosis of insects. The original Dutch edition was published in 1669 also by Van Dreunen.

Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur… Adjicitur dilucidatio … Editio Nova.

Re-issue of the rare Latin translation first published in Utrecht, by Meinardus van Dreunen in 1684, of Swammerdam’s famous work on the metamorphosis of insects. The original Dutch edition was published in 1669 also by Van Dreunen.

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