The Resource The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from, Edward Dolnick
The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from, Edward Dolnick
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- Summary
- "Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes. Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 309 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: England in the early 1630s
- Part one: Peering into the body. Onward to glory ; Hidden in deep night ; Swallowing stones and drinking dew ; Unmoored in time ; "Double, double toil and trouble" ; Door A or door B?
- Part two: The search for the egg. Missing: one universe (reward to finder) ; Sharks' teeth and cows' eggs ; The egg, at last ; A world in a drop of water ; "Animals of the semen"
- Part three: Russian dolls. Dolls within dolls ; The message in God's fine print ; Sea of troubles ; The rabbit woman of Godliman ; "All in pieces, all coherence gone" ; The cathedral that built itself ; A vase in silhouette
- Part four: The clockwork topples and a new theory rises. Frogs in silk pants ; A drop of venom ; The craze of the century ; "I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open" ; The nose of the Sphinx ; "The game is afoot" ; Caught!
- Isbn
- 9780465082957
- Label
- The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
- Title
- The seeds of life
- Title remainder
- from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward Dolnick
- Title variation
- Seeds of life
- Title variation remainder
- from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from sharks teeth to frogs pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- trueScientists
- trueConception
- trueExperiments
- HISTORY -- Social History
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- trueHuman anatomy
- trueHuman reproduction
- Human reproduction
- Human reproduction -- History
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Social aspects
- trueHuman reproduction -- Social aspects
- trueReligion and science
- SCIENCE -- History
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | General
- trueScience -- Methodology
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes. Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from"--
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- 10564917
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- 1952-
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- Dolnick, Edward
- Dewey number
- 612.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Human reproduction
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- from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frog's pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from, Edward Dolnick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index
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- Prologue: England in the early 1630s -- Part one: Peering into the body. Onward to glory ; Hidden in deep night ; Swallowing stones and drinking dew ; Unmoored in time ; "Double, double toil and trouble" ; Door A or door B? -- Part two: The search for the egg. Missing: one universe (reward to finder) ; Sharks' teeth and cows' eggs ; The egg, at last ; A world in a drop of water ; "Animals of the semen" -- Part three: Russian dolls. Dolls within dolls ; The message in God's fine print ; Sea of troubles ; The rabbit woman of Godliman ; "All in pieces, all coherence gone" ; The cathedral that built itself ; A vase in silhouette -- Part four: The clockwork topples and a new theory rises. Frogs in silk pants ; A drop of venom ; The craze of the century ; "I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open" ; The nose of the Sphinx ; "The game is afoot" ; Caught!
- Control code
- 1799654
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- ix, 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465082957
- Lccn
- 2016054195
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- unmediated
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- (OCoLC)960294702
- Label
- The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from, Edward Dolnick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
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- Contents
- Prologue: England in the early 1630s -- Part one: Peering into the body. Onward to glory ; Hidden in deep night ; Swallowing stones and drinking dew ; Unmoored in time ; "Double, double toil and trouble" ; Door A or door B? -- Part two: The search for the egg. Missing: one universe (reward to finder) ; Sharks' teeth and cows' eggs ; The egg, at last ; A world in a drop of water ; "Animals of the semen" -- Part three: Russian dolls. Dolls within dolls ; The message in God's fine print ; Sea of troubles ; The rabbit woman of Godliman ; "All in pieces, all coherence gone" ; The cathedral that built itself ; A vase in silhouette -- Part four: The clockwork topples and a new theory rises. Frogs in silk pants ; A drop of venom ; The craze of the century ; "I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open" ; The nose of the Sphinx ; "The game is afoot" ; Caught!
- Control code
- 1799654
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- ix, 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465082957
- Lccn
- 2016054195
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780465082957
- (OCoLC)960294702
Subject
- trueScientists
- trueConception
- trueExperiments
- HISTORY -- Social History
- History
- trueHuman anatomy
- trueHuman reproduction
- Human reproduction
- Human reproduction -- History
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Social aspects
- trueHuman reproduction -- Social aspects
- trueReligion and science
- SCIENCE -- History
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | General
- trueScience -- Methodology
- trueScientific discoveries
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