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Swammerdam
[ svahm-uhr-dahm ]
noun
- Jan [yahn], 1637–80, Dutch anatomist and entomologist.
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Swammerdam even saw the pulsation of the great dorsal vessel through the shell of the egg of Oryctes nasicornis.
In the anatomical field the work of Malpighi and Swammerdam was at first continued most energetically by French students.
Swammerdam, however, showed the presence under the larval cuticle of the pupal structures.
If you doubt this, pitch that folio Swammerdam or Puffendorf into a good rousing fire, and mark the result.
Swammerdam says, in his curious Memoir, entitled "Vita Ephemeri," it is not less than three years.
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