Redi, Francesco (1626-1697)

  • Redi, Francesco, (1626-1697)
Date:
c.1670
Reference:
MS.8055/1
Part of:
Miscellany: Italian, 16th and 17th century
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Copy of an autograph letter by Redi giving an account of a nun, Sister Antonia Masci, with an abnormal clitoris, including a diagram. The copy letter is mounted on an exhibition-type board, entitled and with a complete English translation printed on the right hand side.

Publication/Creation

c.1670

Physical description

1 item

Acquisition note

No provenance information found.

Biographical note

Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist and poet, born at Arezzo. He practiced medicine at Florence. He is most famous for demonstrating in 1668 that rotting meat carefully kept from flies will not produce maggots, providing experimental evidence against the theory of spontaneous generation (abiogenesis) and proving that maggots came from flies. Redi died at Pisa, 1697/98.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: Poetry by Redi is held as MS.4176, and a poem on his death forms part of MS.2329.

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