Marcello Malpighi - Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694)
As students are guided to make their own detailed observations and drawings at various days during chick embryonic development (Figure 2), the project can be related to historically important biological observations made by Aristotle, William Harvey, Marcello Malpighi, and others (Gilbert, 2010).