| | On the causation of animal morphogenesis: concepts of German-speaking authors from Theodor Schwann (1839) to Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Aristotle, for sure the father of embryology, lived in various wealthy communities at the shores of Greece and Asia Minor before settling in flourishing Athens. |
 | | Fabricius of Aquapendente and Marcello Malpighi, who were the first to achieve progress beyond Aristotle in studying the chick embryo, worked in some of the richest cities of renaissance Italy, and William Harvey (omne vivum ex ovo) was attached to the court in London. |
 | | Some generations later, René-Antoine de Réaumur and Charles Bonnet - the former an influential descriptive embryologist and the latter known for pushing the idea of embryonic preformation to its extremes - lived, respectively, in the heart of royal France and in a Swiss city rich from trading with that country. |
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