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29 janvier 2024
- doi: 10.4000/books.mnhn.14972
- isbn: 978-2-85653-995-8
- eisbn: 978-2-85653-996-5
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Theodore W. Pietsch, « Wolff and His Works », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.14972
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Caspar Friedrich Wolff graduated as a doctor in Halle in 1759. His thesis titled Dissertatio sistens theoriam generationis was based on experiments in embryology. Wolff indicated that he observed vessels from the beginning of development, forming what was called the “venous valves”, as if molecules traced a path in the yolk membrane. He observed that these venous valves existed before the heart was visible. He concluded that the motion was independent of the action of the heart and that this...