Editing Lazzaro Spallanzani (section)

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Spallanzani studied and made important descriptions on blood circulation and respiration.<ref name=somma/> In 1777, he gave the name [[Tardigrada]] (from Latin meaning "slow-moving") to the phylum of minute extremophile animals also called water bears.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2010-01-01 |title=Tardigrada |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123748553000145 |journal=Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates |pages=455–484 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-374855-3.00014-5 |last1=Nelson |first1=Diane R. |last2=Guidetti |first2=Roberto |last3=Rebecchi |first3=Lorena |isbn=9780123748553 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fox-Skelly |first=Jasmin |title=Tardigrades return from the dead |url=https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth |access-date=2021-08-16 |website=www.bbc.com}}</ref>

In 1788 he visited [[Vesuvius]] and the volcanoes of the [[Lipari Islands]] and Mount Etna in [[Sicily]]. He visited the latter along with [[Carlo Gemmellaro]]. He embodied the results of his research in a large work (''Viaggi alle due Sicilie ed in alcune parti dell'Appennino''), published four years later.

Much of his collections, which he kept at the end of his life in his house in Scandiano, were purchased by the city of [[Reggio Emilia]] in 1799. They are now on display inside the [[Palazzo dei Musei, Reggio Emilia |Palazzo dei Musei]] in two rooms denominated the ''Museo Spallanzani''.<ref>[https://www.musei.re.it/en/collections/palazzo-dei-musei-museums-palace/18371-2/ Spallanzani collection], Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia</ref>