Observationes circa viventia, quae in rebus non viventibus reperiuntur
Subtitle: cum micrographia curiosa, siue, rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus, quae ope microscopij recognitae ad viuum exprimuntur; His accesserunt aliquot animalium testaceorum icones non antea in lucem editae : omnia curiosorum natur exploratorum utilitati & iucundititati epressa & oblata
By: a Philippo Bonanni
Contributors: Strozzae, L. Leoni; Aristotle
Publisher: Typis Dominici Antonij Herculis
Published: 1691
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Microscopy; Early works to 1800; Zoology; Pre-Linnean works; Life; Origin; Imprints (Dominici Antonij Herculis)
Other titles: Micrographia curiosa; Rerum minutissimarum obseruationibus
Description: Text illustrates early microscopes. Also included in the microscope used by Joseph Campani.
Notes: Includes indexes.

Errata notes.

The second part of text, Testacorum Animalium, has engraved half-title page on p. 308.

The first part of the book centers on the origin of life and is chiefly a defense of Aristotle's doctrine of spontaneous generation from his The History of Animals.

"Illustrissimo Domino L. Leoni Strozzae."

"Societ. Iesv Sacerdote."

George S. Huntington Library.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 264