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An account of a Book, entituled Relatione de Ri- 
trovameiito delF Vova di Chiocciole^ isrc. 
THe All tliour is anonymous, but dedicates his trea- 
tife to Signer Malpgbi, he fir ft takes notice ot the 
opinion of the Scholes which taught two forts of 
Generation, either by the feed of the Animal or Spon- 
taneous out of Corruption, and fayes the Modernes reduce 
thofe two to one, and having obferved the uniformity 
of nature in moft of her works, have gone yet farther, 
atnd venturd to prove that the general univerfal produ- 
ctive principle of all Species is, £:v ovo^ and this he endea- 
vours to puriue in the workes of the Ancients as well a^ 
modern, and out of Scripture as well as Philofophy j but 
one paffage is remarkable out oi Hippocrates in his book 
de Natura pueriy where relating the cafe of a young Wo- 
man, who in dancing Mifcarried of a Foetus of fix days 
old. Hippocrates fayes it was like a raw Egg the Ihell 
being firlt taken of; and therefore in the end concludes 
that the nature of the Oviparous differs not from that 
of Man. 
Butftill there feemed to be much difficulty in the pro- - 
dudiion o{li\{t&s txViSignor J{edi2iS>\\^ fays, did by many 
imconteftable Experiments prove him to be generated 
out of Eggs, and by that convidted of Errotir^ the natural 
Hiftoryesof ^r///^^/^' and Elian^ ihowing the neceffity of 
anew more accurate one which he ownes is with much 
glory purfued by the Royal Society of London as welt as 
thatot P^m and Florence, and particularly makes very 
honourable mention of Mr. Lijier for his Hiftory of Spi- 
ders and Snaiis; and of Mr. I^ay, forhis being thefirft 
Difcovererot their being all Hermaphrodites, or Andro- 
gine, as he terra? it. 
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