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FONTANA, Felice (1730 – 1805)

FONTANA, Felice (1730 – 1805)

1730 – 1805

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Clementino Vannetti (1754-1795) · Rovereto, Accademia degli Agiati · Public domain

1765 CE

#1485

Ricerche de motu del iride.

An investigation of how and why the iris contracts. See P.K. Knoefel, Felice Fontana: life and works, Trento, [1984], See also No.2103.

1767 CE

#2103

Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera.

The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms and their antidotes. This work also includes Fontana’s description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the hu…