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liver, and the heart. Fare's illustrations are copied wholesale from 

 Vesalius and Rueff, without acknowledgment. The last author to 

 take the three-bubble theory quite seriously was A. Deusingius, who 

 wrote in 1665, after Harvey. Others who deserve a mention, but 

 no more, were Severinus Pinaeus, L. Bonaciolus and Felix Platter. 

 None of them made any advance, and the illustrations of the former's 

 De Virginitatibus notis graviditate et partu were almost ludicrous. 



Hieronymus Capivaccius, F. Licetus, J. Costaeus and V. Cardelinus, 

 who wrote in 1608, were the last true supporters of the ancient 

 theories, such as that the male embryo was twice as hot and developed 

 twice as quickly as the female. 



