Seeing Things
Catherine Wilson: Egg and sperm and preformation, 21 May 1998
The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation
by Clara Pinto-Correia.
Chicago, 396 pp., £23.95, November 1997,0 226 66952 1 Show More
by Clara Pinto-Correia.
Chicago, 396 pp., £23.95, November 1997,
“... held that the pre-existing germ resided in the female egg, while ‘spermists’ (Pinto-Correia’s neologism for ‘animalculists’) located it in the ‘spermatic animalcule’ discovered in 1677 by Leeuwenhoek; the dispute between them is the subject of Clara Pinto-Correia’s book. ... ”