SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)

1765 CE

#100

Saggio di osservazioni microscopiche concernenti il sistema della generazione dei Signori de Needham e Buffon. IN: Dissertazione due… pp. [2]-87.

Spallanzani, a believer in preformation theory, found that he could prevent contamination by microorganisms in strongly heated infusions protected from aerial contamination, but he observed that as soon as air was all…

1768 CE

#11710

Dell' azione del cuore ne' vasi sanguigni nuove osservasioni.

In this response to Haller's Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang (1756) (No. 11607) Spallanzani outlined his own findings on the action of the heart upon the blood vessels. "Haller's microscopic observations…

1768 CE

#101

Prodromo di un opera da imprimersi sopra le riproduzione animali.

In this preliminary to a larger work on regeneration which was never published, Spallanzani described regenerative capacities of remarkable complexity and repetitiveness in the land snail, salamander and toad and frog…

1773 CE

#11706

De' fenomeni della circolazione osservata nel giro universale de' vasi; de' fenomeni della circolazione languente; de' moti del sangue independenti dall'azione del cuore; e del pulsar delle arterie.

In four memoirs on the dynamics of the circulatory system resulting from 337 experiments recorded in this workSpallanzani studied the role of the circulation in every stage from embryo to adult, and it was through his…

1776 CE

#102

Opusculi di fisica animale e vegetabile. 2 vols.

Later refutation of the theory of spontaneous generation. Spallanzani’s conclusions were similar to those expressed by Pasteur nearly a century later. His collected works were published in Milan, 2 vols., 1932-3…

1780 CE

#981

Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetable. 2 vols.

In the first patrt of this work, Della digestione dissertazione prima Spallanzani confirmed earlier doctrines of the solvent property of the gastric juice and discovered the action of the saliva in digestion. He state…

1783 CE

#12037

Lettera dell' Abate Spallanzani al Sig. Marchese Lucchesini.

Records on pp. 80-104 Spallanzani's work on the torpedo. In the 1780's Spallanzani turned to marine biology, making several trips to the Mediterranean region. On his visit to Portovenere in 1783 "he instituted the fir…

1803 CE

#11709

Mémoires sur la respiration par Lazare Spallanzani, traduits en français, d'après son manuscrit inédit, par Jean Senebier.

Spallanzani's experimental data laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of respiratory physiology. In concluding that the blood transported carbon dioxide as a product of tissue oxidation, Spallanzani discovered pa…

1825 CE–1826 CE

#9360

Opere. 6 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1951 CE

#13182

Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui

1984 CE–2013 CE

#9359

Edizioni nationale delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani. 30 vols.

Includes the correspondence and previously unpublished manuscripts. A description of this set is available from the publisher at this link.