10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANIMALCULIST»
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animalculist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
animalculist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Although the animalculist theory was in sharp contrast to Aristotelian
embryological theories in rejecting epigenesis for preformation, animalculist
premises sound surprisingly similar to those of Aristotle. The animalculist George
Garden argued ...
But to provide conclusive proof of Animalculist Preformation I must also disprove
Ovist Preformation. Ovism must be fully investigated to be refuted, just to be sure.'
That is not necessary. Ovism cannot be true. You've seen the Little Man!
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The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Homberg was an animalculist, but his treatise was not published, and the
astonishing silence of the Academie on the subject of sperm cells has already
been mentioned. Even before Leeuwenhoek had fashioned his system, French
scientists ...
Jacques Roger Edited by Keith R. Benson Translated by Robert Ellrich, 1997
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The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750
spermatozoa" would not be used until the 1820s-the imaginative appeal is
particularly noteworthy given the fact that it was the animalculist but the ovist
school of preformationist thought which dominated embryology from the late
seventeenth ...
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Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology ...
... 9- 1 o Pouchet, Felix-Archimede, 149, 182 n.1 preexistence, see preformation,
preexistence and preformation (see also emboitement: Haller, animalculist
preformation, belief in; conversion toovist; ovist preformation, theory of):
animalculist, ...
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Science and the Enlightenment
It was also hard to explain how the mother could pass on her characteristics to an
embryo coming entirely from the male, and therefore the animalculist view
declined in the early eighteenth century. Some even denied the existence of the ...
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The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe ...
This understanding was even more pronounced in the animalculist theory.
Although they were different in other respects, in this instance the animalculist
and ovist theories produced similar effects. As the theory of the two seeds was
gradually ...
8
Bodily Discursions: Genders, Representations, Technologies
The ovist-animalculist debate, relative to human and other mammalian
reproduction, raged in the European scientific community from 1651, when
Harvey, refining ancient notions of spontaneous generation, proposed that all
human and other ...
Deborah S. Wilson, Christine Moneera Laennec, 1997
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Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740
Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton University Press, 1961), 855.
Homer and Socrates. Animalculist theory, in the 1690s, had begun to challenge
the 'ovist' theories propounded by Harvey in De Generatione Animalium (1651).
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, 2012
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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century
This is the ovist version of preformation, in which the germs that contain all future
descendants reside in the egg or ovum: there is also an animalculist version,
following Leeuwenhoek's microscopic observation of the sperm (which he terms
...
Peter Sabor, Paul Edward Yachnin, 2008
