Re: VMS -- Botany (f86v) Plant Reproduction

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Feb 2002 at 10:34, Nick Pelling wrote:
> It's certainly debatable, but the iconography of the page suggests to
> me that spermatozoa are represented as dots: in which case both the
> male (bottom left) and female (top left) have their own, which would
> point to the answer being Galenic.

This should imply that the dating of the ms is completely wrong...
If we are to believe the signature at the front as proof of the ms passing by Jacobus hands , JdeT received his title in 1608.
The first compound microscope is attributed to Zacharias Jansen around 1595. Spermatozoa had not been observed until 
van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), so really, I think that there is no reason to believe that the page represents cellular 
elements.

Cheers,

Gabriel