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The ovary of Eve : egg and sperm and preformation / Clara Pinto-Correia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998, �1997.Edition: [Pbk. ed., 1998]Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 396 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226669505
  • 9780226669502
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ovary of Eve.DDC classification:
  • 509.4/09/032 21
LOC classification:
  • Q127.E8 C67 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: Dare to Know -- 1. All about Eve -- 2. All about Adam -- 3. "One Does Not See the Wind" -- 4. Hopeful Monsters -- 5. Frogs with Boxer Shorts -- 6. The H Word -- 7. The Music of the Spheres -- 8. Magical Numbers -- Epilogue: The Fat Lady Will Not Sing.
Summary: "The Ovary of Eve is a rich and often hilarious account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century efforts to understand conception. In these early years of the Scientific Revolution, the most intelligent men and women of the day struggled to come to terms with the origins of new life, and one theory--preformation--sparked an intensely heated debate that continued for over a hundred years. Clara Pinto-Correia traces the history of this much maligned theory through the cultural capitals of Europe."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index.

Prologue: Dare to Know -- 1. All about Eve -- 2. All about Adam -- 3. "One Does Not See the Wind" -- 4. Hopeful Monsters -- 5. Frogs with Boxer Shorts -- 6. The H Word -- 7. The Music of the Spheres -- 8. Magical Numbers -- Epilogue: The Fat Lady Will Not Sing.

"The Ovary of Eve is a rich and often hilarious account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century efforts to understand conception. In these early years of the Scientific Revolution, the most intelligent men and women of the day struggled to come to terms with the origins of new life, and one theory--preformation--sparked an intensely heated debate that continued for over a hundred years. Clara Pinto-Correia traces the history of this much maligned theory through the cultural capitals of Europe."--Publisher's description.

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