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Quotation from The Works of William Harvey by William Harvey
“this we say takes place by the method of epigenesis, namely, by degrees, part after part”
The Works of William Harvey, On Generation, Exercise the Forty-fifth, trans. Robert Willis (1847)
Harvey distinguishes generation by metamorphosis from generation in which one part is formed first and the rest added in order.
Citation: "this we say takes place by the method of epigenesis, namely, by degrees, part after part" — William Harvey, The Works of William Harvey, On Generation, Exercise the Forty-fifth, trans. Robert Willis (1847). (id harvey-works-q4)
