The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

by Clara Pinto Correia

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226669521
• ISBN13: 9780226669526
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"