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Definition of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
1. Noun. German anatomist (1733-1794).
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Literary usage of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
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1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"WOLFFIAN BODY (named in honor of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff). One of the pair of
excretory organs that is functional in the adult of many fishes and of Amphibia ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... Marie FX Bichat (1771-1802), the founder of histology; Kaspar Friedrich
Wolff (1733-94), whose dissertation entitled •Theoria Generationis' (1759) is ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"About a century later Kaspar Friedrich Wolff published his important "Theoria
generationis" (1759), which clearly shows that he must have observed cells in ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... it should be remembered, were advanced by Maupertuis more than a decade before
the publication of the great work of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff,* from which ..."
5. The History of Medicine in Its Salient Features by Walter LIBBY (1922)
"Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-94) opposed the preformation idea in his Theory of
Generation, which appeared first as a doctor's thesis in 1759. ..."
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