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Buonanni, Ricreatione dell'ochio e delle mente nell'osservation
della'Chiocciole Rome 1681m engraving by Venturini, supposedly
one of the very first books on Molluscs, and at the heart of the dispute
as to their capacity for spontaneous generation.
Albertus Seba Locpletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri 1734
- 1765, another plate, another face
Carl Linnaeus, Systema Naturaer, Stockholm 1758/9
F.Bonnani, illustration to the catalogue of Athanasius Kircher's MUSAEUM
KIRCHERIANUM Rome 1709
Thomas
Martyn, The Universal Conchologist 1794/5
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