Philosophical Observations on the Analogy Between the Propagation of Animals and that of Vegetables: In which are answered Some Objections against the Indivisibility of the SOUL, which have been inadvertently drawn from the late curious and useful Experiments upon the POLYPUS and other ANIMALS. With An Explanation of the Manner in which each Piece of a divided Polypus becomes another perfect Animal of the same Species.
by PARSONS, James
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Printed for C. Davis. London. 1752. 8vo.. pp. xvi, 276, (xii) Index. Folding engraved plate. Contemporary calf, spine edges rubbed with a small split starting at the head, the plate torn in one of the folds without loss and with a very small marginal tear, otherwise a very good copy, from the library of RICHARD FREEMAN.
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- Philosophical Observations on the Analogy Between the Propagation of Animals and that of Vegetables: In which are answered Some Objections against the Indivisibility of the SOUL, which have been inadvertently drawn from the late curious and useful Experiments upon the POLYPUS and other ANIMALS. With An Explanation of the Manner in which each Piece of a divided Polypus becomes another perfect Animal of the same Species.
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- Printed for C. Davis. London. 1752. 8vo.
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