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INDEX 



Pliny exempts asses and sheep 



from lice, 120 

 Plotinus, 96 

 Plum, worm in, 102 

 Plutarch, 42 



Porta, Battista, 50, 52, 64 

 Purpose, 92 

 Putrefaction, 91 

 Pythagorus, 96 

 Pumpkin, 76 

 Pupae, 28 



Redi, R, life of, 5-8; significance 

 of his work, 8-1 1; bibliog- 

 raphy, 13; belief in biogen- 

 esis, 26-27 



Rucellai, Giovanni, poem on 

 bees, 40-41 



Sachs, Philip James, 51 



Saint Jerome, 57 



Scaliger, 2>7 



Scorpions, dy, myths concerning 

 spontaneous generation of, 

 51-53 ; this theory disproved, 

 53 ; sexual differences, 53 ; 

 habits of young, 54; position 

 of young in oviduct, 54; 

 abundance in Italy, 55; Ital- 

 ian species compared with 

 forms from Egypt and 

 Tunis, 55-57; weight, 55; 

 aperture of sting, 58 ; poison, 

 its effects, 58-62; flies breed 

 in dead scorpions, 64 



Segneri, 7 



Seneca, quotation, 126 



Senses, their use as a guide to 

 reason, 19 



Sensibility of plants, 96-98 



Servius the grammarian, 50 



Silkworms, 115; Vida's origin of 

 same in decayed flesh of 

 mule, 115 ^ 



Snakes, 27, 49; belief in creation 

 from rotten matter utterly 

 false, 64 ; heart has one ven- 

 tricle, 81 



Soul, as generative principle, 91, 

 92 



Sperlmg, Johann, 37, 43, 65, 119 



Spiders, ability to withstand 

 starvation, 66; eggs, 67, 69; 

 young, 67; ecdysis, 68; nest, 

 69; thread, 69; do not live 

 in galls, 70; web, 71-72 



Sponges, plant-animals, 96 ; 

 movement, 99 



Spontaneous generation, 9, 91 



Spontaneous generation, early 

 belief in, 21 ; flesh does not 

 become wormy of itself, 72; 

 does not occur in protected 

 fruits and vegetables, 75 ; 

 does not occur in dead ani- 

 mals, 38; in dead flesh de- 

 nied, 64 



Stoics, theory of origin of man, 

 2,2 



Sweet basil, belief that scorpions 

 are produced by it disproved, 

 52 



Tachinid fly, 114 



Tadpoles, 79 



Tertullian, 57 



Theophrastus, 48 



Toads, 64; appearance during a 

 shower, explained, 80 



Tumors on plants, 81, 85, 82-84 

 (see also Galls) 



Tun-fish, 65 



Turtles, method of laying eggs, 

 78 



Uterus, use of the term, 69 



Vallisneri, 10 



Varini, 5 



Varro, 26, 38, 39, 46, 50 



Vida, Girolamo, 115 



Virgil, 39, 42 



Vital stimulus, 94 



Voss, Gerard, 43 



Wasps eat meat, 47; poison not 

 dependent on food, 48; at- 

 tack bees and flies, 49; feed 

 on fruit and flowers, 49; 

 originate in flesh of dead 

 horses, according to Varro,. 

 50 



Whitethorn, 85 



World soul, 24 



Zoophytes, 96, 98-99 



