Marcello Malpighi
Anatomist; described the small rounded bodies of the kidney in 1666
- Dates
- 1628-1694 (source: Wikipedia: Marcello Malpighi (listed in research/02 §11) )
- Chapters
- V. What the Water Knew
What the film says
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Had seen the tiny tufts of blood vessels in the kidney that Bowman re-examined.
On the timeline
- 1666: Marcello Malpighi's De viscerum structura describes the small rounded bodies of the kidney, later called Malpighian corpuscles. timeline
Sources
Sources
- Wikipedia: Marcello Malpighi (listed in research/02 §11) Secondary