Chicken embryo. 17th-century drawings of chicken embryos as observed under the microscope by the Italian physician and microscopist Marcello Malpighi

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Chicken embryo. 17th-century drawings of chicken embryos as observed under the microscope by the Italian physician and microscopist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). This is plate VI from a volume of Malpighi's 'Opera omnia' (1686).

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