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Francesco Redi
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Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet (1626–1697)

Also known as: Redi, Франческо Реди, فرانسيسكو ريدي, 프란체스코 레디, フランチェスコ・レディ, 弗朗切斯科·雷迪

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Known works

  • Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti (1668)
  • Opere di Francesco Redi (1729)
  • Scritti di botanica, zoologia e medicina (1975)
  • Francisci Redi, nobilis Aretini, Opusculorum pars prior [-tertia]... sive experimenta circa generationem insectorum, ad illustrem virum Carolum Dati, accedit J. Frid. Lachmund De ave diomedea Dissertatio
  • Opusculorum pars prior; sive, Experimenta circa generationem insectorum