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Autore |
Correia Clara Pinto |
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Titolo |
The ovary of Eve [[electronic resource] ] : egg and sperm and preformation / / Clara Pinto-Correia |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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9786611223915 |
1-281-22391-3 |
0-226-66950-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (424 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Embryology - History |
Reproduction - Research - History |
Science - Europe - History - 17th century |
Science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATI0NS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1. All About Eve -- 2. All About A dam -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. "The most wonderfully eye-opening, or imagination-opening book, as amusing as it is instructive."-Mary Warnock, London Observer "[A] fascinating and often humorous study of a reproductive theory that flourished from the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century."-Nina |
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