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Marcello Malpighi
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Italian physician (1628-1694)
Marcello Malpighi was an Italian physician who lived from 1628 to 1694 and is remembered as a pioneering figure in early microscopy and anatomy. His detailed observations of tissues and organs using the microscope helped establish modern understanding of how the human body works at scales invisible to the naked eye.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1628
- Died
- 1694
- Works
- 57
Top works
- Marcelli Malpighii ... Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo
- Marcelli Malpighii, philosophi & medici bononiensis e Regia Societate Lond. Opera posthuma
- Marcelli Malpighii consultationum medicinalium centuria prima, quam in gratiam clinicorum evulgat Hieronymus Gaspari ... , et Jo. Francisco Mauroceno ...
- De pulmonum substantia & motu diatribe
- Exercitationes anatomicae duae de structura et usu renum ut et de gustus organo novissime deprehenso
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Papal States
- Place of birth
- Crevalcore
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- entomologist
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- University of Bologna
- Employer
- University of Pisa
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
- Doctoral student
- Giorgio Baglivi
- Field of work
- biology
- Image
- Marcello Malpighi large.jpg
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- Marcello Malpighi
- date of birth
- 1628-03-10
- date of death
- 1694-11-29
- cause of death
- stroke
- member of
- Arcadian Academy
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Marcello Malpighi
- pseudonym
- Therone Philacio
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- place of burial
- Santi Gregorio e Siro
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 30 November 1694) was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects. The splenic lymphoid nodules are often called the "Malpighian bodies of the spleen" or Malpighian corpuscles. The botanical family Malpighiaceae is also named after him. He was the first person to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins that had eluded William Harvey. Malpighi was one of the earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam. His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding blood composition, as well as how blood clots. In it, Malpighi described how the form of a blood clot differed in the right against the left sides of the heart.
The use of the microscope enabled Malpighi to discover that insects do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae. Malpighi also studied the anatomy of the brain and concluded this organ is a gland. In terms of modern endocrinology, this deduction is correct because the hypothalamus of the brain has long been recognized for its hormone-secreting capacity.
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