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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



collected works, literary, scientific, and medical, were pub- 

 lished in nine octavo volumes in Milan, 1 809-1 811. This 

 collection includes his life and letters, and embraces one 



Fig. 89. — Francesco Redi, 1626-1697. 



volume of sonnets. The book that has been referred to as 

 containing his experiments was entitled Esperienze Intorno 

 Alia Generazione Degl'Insetti, and first saw the light in 

 quarto form in Florence in 1668. It went through five 

 editions in twenty years. Some of the volumes were trans- 



