4 janvier 2021
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Georges Cuvier, « 5. Anatomical Contributions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.6319
Especially important in laying new foundations in fish science were the observations by the anatomical school, founded in Italy by such men as Vesalius, Eustachius, and Fallopius, which flourished in the sixteenth century and, during the seventeenth, was brought by a happy necessity to the study of animal anatomy. One of its cleverest masters, Fabricius d’Aquapendente, studied fish reproduction and scales in some detail and published an anatomical description of the houndshark (émissole). Cas...