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Of the Generation of Vivi∣parous Animals. (Book 63)
EXER. LXIII. (Book 63)
THus farre have we proceeded in the Generati∣on of Oviparous Animals; it follows, that we now produce our Observations, concerning the other species of Viviparous productions: wherein we have found very many things which are alto∣gether the same with those which occurre in the Egge; which we have reduced hither to be con∣sulted, and come last to be delivered. Which, though they are paradoxical, and run counter to the common received tenets, yet are they, if my judgment fail me not, entirely consonant to the Truth.
Amongst Viviparous Animals, Man is the chief, and most perfect of all: next him (that we may proceed from such as are more known) are ranked those creatures that are more sociable & obvious: (whereof some are solidipeda, whole-hoofed; as the Horse, and Ass: some are Bisulca, cloven foot∣ed; as the Oxe, the Goat, the Sheep, the Hogg, and the Deer: others fissipeda, sive digitatis pedibus, Creatures whose feet are distinguished into Toes; as the Dog, the Cat, the Cony, the Mouse, and the like; out of the manner of whose generation, we may conclude concerning the generation of all o∣ther Viviparous Animals. Wherefore, (as we have done in the History of the Egge, so) we shall single out some one kinde of these, as an Exemplar or Representative of all the rest; which, as being most known to us, will give light to the rest, and