Miscellanea Curiosa.

omnium Animalium. Mr. Leewenhoeck has made this so evident by so many Observations, that I do not in the least question the truth of the thing. The reason of their Multitude, and some of the Difficulties which arise thereupon, he has cleared to very good Purpose, so that I shall not repeat them. 2. The observing the Rudiments of the Fœtus in Eggs, which have been fecundated by the Male, and the seeing no such thing in those which are not fecundated, as appears from Malpighius his Observations, make it very probable that these Rudiments proceed originally from the Male, and not from the Female. 3. The resemblance between the Rudiments of the Fœtus in Ovo, both before and after Incubation, and the Animalcle, makes it very probable, that they are one and the same. The same Shape and Figure which Mr. Leewenhoeck gives us of the Animalcle, Malpighius likewise gives of the Rudiments of the Fœtus, both before and after Incubation; yea, and even the Fœtus's of Animals do appear so at first to the naked Eye, so that Dr. Harvey does acknowledge that all Animals, even the most perfect, are begotten of a Worm, De Gen. Anim. Ex. 18. 4. This gives a rational account of many Fœtus's at one Birth, especially that of the Countess of Holland, and how at least a whole Cluster of Eggs in a Hen are fecundated by one Coition of the Male. 5. This gives a new light, as it were, to the first Prophecy concerning the Messiah*, that the Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Head of the Serpent, all the rest of Mankind being thus most properly and truly the Seed of the Man. 6. The Analogy I have already mentioned, which we may rationally suppose between the manner of the propagation of Plants and Animals, does likewise make this probable. Every Herb and Tree bears its Seed after its kind; which Seed is nothing else but a little Plant of the same kind, which being thrown into the Earth,