The ovary of Eve : egg and sperm and preformation
Clara Pinto Correia (Author)
"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
eBook, English, 1998, ©1997
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1998, ©1997
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1 online resource (xxiii, 396 pages) : illustrations
9780226669502, 0226669505
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