Works
Liceti's varied publications demonstrate his range of interests, from genetics and reproduction to gems and animals. His prodigious output once caused mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri to write to Galileo Galilei that Liceti “makes a book a week ('esso fa un libro in una settimana').” At the end of Liceti's 1653 work Hieroglyphica, he included a list of his compositions to that point. Fifty-five had been published, nineteen were completed but not yet published, and three were still in preparation. His output can be subdivided into several fields.
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