The year 1691 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Biology
Italian Jesuit scholar
Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic observations of invertebrates in Observationes circa Viventia, quae in Rebus non-Viventibus.
Anton Nuck's Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova is published at
Leiden, including a description of the
canal of Nuck[1] and a demonstration that the
embryo is derived from the
ovary and not the
sperm.[2]
The year 1691 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Biology
Italian Jesuit scholar
Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic observations of invertebrates in Observationes circa Viventia, quae in Rebus non-Viventibus.
Anton Nuck's Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova is published at
Leiden, including a description of the
canal of Nuck[1] and a demonstration that the
embryo is derived from the
ovary and not the
sperm.[2]