Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Wolff, ''Act. Acad.,' St. Petersburg, 1778'. CUL-DAR80.A13. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 109-110: "The famous old anatomist, Wolff, insists that the internal viscera are more variable than the external parts: Nulla particula est quæ non aliter et aliter in aliis se habeat hominibus. He has even written a treatise on the choice of typical examples of the viscera for representation. A discussion on the beau-ideal of the liver, lungs, kidneys, &c., as of the human face divine, sounds strange in our ears." Footnote 7: "'Act. Acad.,' St. Petersburg, 1778, part ii. p. 217."
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(a) Nulla particula est, quae non aliter et aliter in aliis se habeat hominibus; &
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on the choice of typical examples for representation
A discussion on the beau ideal of the liver, lungs or as on
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