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IX, Account of a BOOK. 
Marcelli Malpighii Philofophi Medici Bam- 
nienfts e Regia Soc. Lond. Opera fo^hn- 
ma Fig. aneis illujirata qnibus pr^jixa eji 
ejufdem Vita a feipfo Scripta Lond. impmfis 
A. J. Churchill, ad inftgne ntgricygni in 
Vico di^o Pater-nofter-row, iSpj.in FoL 
THis Pofthumous Work of Malpighius^ was deli- 
vered when he found himfelf draw near the fa- 
tal Period of his Life, with orders to fend to ih^ Royal 
Society after his Death, by whofe care it was publiiVd, 
being the laft Remains of the Illuflrious Malpighi, gi- 
ving an account of his w^hole Studies, and (cme remar- 
kable paflages of his Life. 
The Work begins with his Life^ which is Dedicated 
. to the Royal Society ; where he tells us, that Amo 1645, 
having finifli'd his Gramatical Studies, he began to ap- 
ply himfelf to the Peripatetick Philofophy, Amo 1649. 
He fell upon the ftudy of Phyfick at the Perfwafion of 
his Mafter Francifcus NataliSy his Father, Mother, and 
Grand- mother being then dead, and began with Ana* 
tomy^ Anno 16$-^. He was honoured with the Laurel, 
as Doa-or of Philcfophy and Phyjick, to which and Am- 
tomy he dedicated himfelf under the Famous Dr. Majfa- 
riasy who died ^«»^7 ^^55- ^^^^ 1656 he was made 
Publick Reader at Bononta, and Profejfer of Phyfick at 
Tifa, when he began to leave ofF the difputative, and 
apply himfelf to a more Experimental Method, and 
wrote fome Dialogues againft the Pertpatetkks and Gj- 
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