Guillaume de HOUPPEVILLE
La generation de l'homme par le moyen des oeufs, et la production des tumeurs impures par l'action des sels, défendues par Eudoxe et Philotime, contre Antigene
Chez Jacques Lucas|à Rouen 1676|9.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
Second edition, after the first published in 1675.
Contemporary flexible vellum binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title, date and place at foot. Head crushed. Soiling and stains. Manuscript ownership inscription on title page. Good copy.
Some years earlier, the author had published a letter with the same title: La génération de l'homme par le moyen des oeufs. A response was soon circulated that mocked and ridiculed the author, even accusing him of blasphemy. Houppeville produced his defense in 1676 in the form of a dialogue between three people: one character defending the thesis of generation through eggs, an arbitrator questioning, and a third character suppo
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