The Egg and Sperm Race. The Seventeenth-century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Manyhills Books.
Simon & Schuster, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Multiple copies of this title available. Where do we come from? Where do animals come from? For thousands of years we really had no clue how living things were created - great thinkers like Aristotle and Plato had attempted to explain what became known as the problem of 'generation', but neither really had the tools or the insight to solve the mystery. The result was a wealth of weird and wonderful ideas about the components necessary to create new life - blood, "vapours", strange pulses in the air. Nor did people make intuitive leaps that now seem self-evident: it was widely accepted that animals could breed different species, for example; the notion that two sheep can only make another sheep is a surprisingly modern idea. But all this confusion changed in a flurry of discovery in the mid-seventeenth century. In just a decade, a group of young scientists in Europe, all known to each other and in competition with each other, established the existence first of the human egg and then of the human sperm. At last, the building blocks were in place - although, in one of the great ironies of science, it would be another 150 years before someone worked out how fertilisation actually took place. Focusing on the personalities and rivalries of this extraordinary period, Matthew Cobb has shed new light not just on an under-reported story of science but on our very nature - what makes us, and how little we still know about one of the greatest miracles of Nature. Quantity Available: 7. Category: History; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; ISBN: 0743276094. ISBN/EAN: 9780743276092. Inventory No: 09010182..

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Syber's Books [263633], Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
600 g; XVI, 336 pages, includes bibliography, index, chapter notes, chronology, and is illustrated with various black-and-white reproductions of drawings and printed pages. Colour illustrated dustjacket. Neither book nor dustjacket show any sign of damage. In 1 decade in the mid-17th century, scientists showed that all animals including humans come from and 8, and that there is no such thing as spontaneous generation. This book describes the discoveries in clear and accessible terms, highlighting the rivalries and friendships of the men who carried out this work and showing the links between science and culture in that mulch was years of the 1660s and 1670s. -- Paraphrasing the front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We will happily provide a picture of this book, on request. Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; History; Biology; ISBN: 0743276094. ISBN/EAN: 9780743276092. Inventory No: 0231560.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Booknest [54889061], Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
ex-library copy surprisingly in very good condition, inc. photos, notes, bibliography, index, minimal shelf wear, dust jacket not price clipped, in protective cover. Size: Octavo. 352 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Medical Books; ISBN: 0743276094. ISBN/EAN: 9780743276092. Dewey Code: 612.609032. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101594.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Serendipity Books [55774], West Leederville, WA, Australia.
(London), Free Press, (2006). Cloth, paper sl. yellowed else fine in d/w, illust., pp. xv, 333. ISBN 0 7432 7609 4.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Adelaide Booksellers, SA, Adelaide, [RE:4].
Hardback, 1st Edition.