The Ovary of Eve

Egg and Sperm and Preformation

Clara Pinto-Correia, Stephen Jay Gould

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English

University of Chicago Press
01 November 1998

Philosophy of science; Developmental biology; Animal reproduction; Human biology

"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 theory through the cultural capitals of Europe.

""The most wonderfully eye-opening, or imagination-opening book, as amusing as it is instructive.""—Mary Warnock, London Observer

""[A] fascinating and often humorous study of a reproductive theory that flourished from the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century.""—Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education

""More than just a good story, The Ovary of Eve is an object lesson about the history of science: Don't trust it. . . . Pinto-Correia says she wants to tell the story of history's losers. In doing so, she makes defeat sound more appealing than victory.""—Emily Eakin, Nation.

""A sparkling history of preformation as it once affected every facet of European culture.""—Robert Taylor, Boston Globe"

By: Clara Pinto-Correia
Foreword by: Stephen Jay Gould
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780226669540
ISBN 10: 0226669548
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 01 November 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over. -- Newsweek <br> By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling. -- The New Yorker<br> <br> Ms. Fuller gives us . . . the Africa she knew as a girl, a place of cruel politics, violent heat and startling beauty, a land she makes vivid in all its ' incongruous, lawless, joyful, violent, upside-down, illogical certainty.' -- The New York Times <br> Vivid, insightful and sly . . . Bottom line: Out of Africa, brilliantly. -- People