10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANIMALCULISM»
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animalculism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
animalculism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
that the readymade animal exists in the male semen; they were the proponents of
“animalculism.” The significant improvement of microscopes in the late
seventeenth century, which led to the discovery of male spermatozoa, provided a
big ...
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The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
took twenty years for animalculism to assume its place among the great theories
of generation. Slow in formulation and in dissemination, the doctrine of animalculi
was also slow in finding adherents. Francis Aston had made no mistake in ...
Jacques Roger Edited by Keith R. Benson Translated by Robert Ellrich,
1997
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Self-generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800
in the female egg (ovism) or in the spermatozoon (animalculism). A
comprehensive philosophy of gender that might have capitalized on these
physiological differences was not yet in place. As the anatomical tables of the
Encyclopedie, ...
Helmut Müller-Sievers,
1997
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
Animalculism, an-e-mallcu-lizm, s. A system ot physiology, which supposes that
the animal embryo is produced solely by spermatic infusoria. Animalculist, an-e-
inal'ku-list, s. A believer in the doctrine of animalculism. Animal Flower, an'e-mal
...
John Craig (F.G.S.),
1848
Fontenelle was an animal- culist, Leibnitz a defender of animalculism and
preformation; Mal- ebranche was an ovist and a partisan of preformation; Harvey
defended epigenesis; Linnaeus was a supporter of ovism; and Voltaire
unleashed his ...
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Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, ...
There was an interesting controversy concerning why, if animalculism was valid,
children often looked like their mothers. One explanation involved the maternal
imagination: vain pregnant women looked at themselves in the glass, and their ...
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
Anita Guerrini ANIMALCULISM. See Ovism and Animalculism. ANIMAL
MACHINE. Analogies drawn between animals and both machines and human
beings, on the one hand, and directly between machines and human beings, on
the other, ...
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Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in ...
See also animalculism; preformationism Palfyn, Jean, 25 Paracelsus, 131, I7Qnn.
23-24 Pare, Ambroise, 28, 29, I53n. 18; De la generation, 80; Des Monstres et
des prodiges, 21, 22, 23, 26, 100, 103, I72n. 3 Pasquier, Etienne, 2 1 , 26 Patin, ...
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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus ...
Animalculism followed a different path. Leeuwenhoek himself was the first to
affirm that spermatozoon were seminal animalcules, or, in the case of man, “
homunculi,” in the shape of the corresponding species. Nicolas Andry (1658-
1731) and ...
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A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, ...
Animalcitlisme, s. m., animalculism : the hypothesis employed to explain, by the
intervention of spermatic or other animalcula, the process of animal procreation,
or the diffusion of contagious, infectious, and epidemic diseases. Animalcu- ...