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ODIERNA, Giovanni Battista [Hodierna]

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l’Occhio della mosca In his: Opusculi…

Palermo, Italy: Cirillo, 1644.

The first microscopical section in biology is discussed and illustrated in Odierna’s study of the fly’s eye, which is also the first description of the faceted eye of an arthropod.



Subjects: BIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology