عنوان

The ovary of Eve :

شابک

0226669521

شابک

9780226669526

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The ovary of Eve :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

egg and sperm and preformation /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Clara Pinto-Correia

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxiii, 396 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index

متن يادداشت

Prologue: Dare to Know -- All About Eve -- All About Adam -- "One Does Not See the Wind" -- Hopeful Monsters -- Frogs with Boxer Shorts -- The H Word -- The Music of the Spheres -- Magical Numbers -- Epilogue: The Fat Lady Will Not Sing

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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. Preformation assumed that, during Creation, God had placed infinite generations of perfect miniature creatures inside their future parents, much like nested Russian dolls. But were these perfect beings in the egg or the sperm? The answer mattered a great deal, because both the Church and the larger society held women accountable for the Fall and Original Sin, as well as for birth defects and failures to conceive, while inheritance of social position and titles, even kingdoms, passed through the male line. The "ovists" debated the "spermists" in palaces and cafes, in churches and at family dinner tables, as the aristocracy, the Church, and the intelligentsia tried to resolve what the ancient Greeks called "the mystery of mysteries." Clara Pinto-Correia weaves the strands of this debate into the cultural and social history of the day and shows why intelligent men and women became committed to a view of life that seems unbelievable to us today

موضوع مستند نشده

Embryology-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Reproduction-- Research-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Europe-- History-- 17th century

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Europe-- History-- 18th century

موضوع مستند نشده

Embryology-- Europe-- history

موضوع مستند نشده

Reproduction-- Europe

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Europe-- history

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Correia, Clara Pinto

تاريخ عمليات

20160712062438.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y