mockery for, 154
ovists and, 125, 148, 169
theory for, 149
trouble for, 151, 153
spirit
as animal, 232
baloma as, 28–29
as vital force, 127
The Starry Messenger (Galileo), 96
Steno, Nicolaus, 92, 93
drawings by, 94 (fig.)
eggs and, 148
students, 62–63, 150
the Sun God, 31(fig.)
surgeon’s guild, 54
surgery, 54, 71, 161
as micro, 141, 221
skills for, 40
Swammerdam, Jan, 94, 131n, 192
The Book of Nature by, 142
death of, 147
illustrations by, 95
insects and, 140, 143
as microscopist, 189
The Miracle of Nature, or the Structure of the Female Uterus by, 102
Swift, Jonathan, 135
Gulliver’s Travels by, 188
Talmud, 34
techniques
for contraception, 24
for embalming, 48
secrets and, 109
technology, 86, 181, 184, 194
telescopes for, 187, 188, 189
Temple of Health, 236
testicles, 20, 132
of dormouse, 89, 91 (fig.), 92
of fleas, 112
ovaries and, 94
structure of, 90
textbooks, 62–63, 204
for biology, 132
science and, 85
theologians, 28
on creation, 36, 130n
questions from, 157
on sex, 34
theories, 156, 170, 229
about Adam’s testicles, 132
alternatives to, 184
animalcules and, 137
for cells, 117, 135, 259, 261
of conception, 24, 70
confirmation of, 248
about eggs, 121
failure of, 14
as false, 88
God and, 146
gravity and, 198
of Greeks, 44, 76
as guide, 193
Hooke and, 109
as mechanistic, 186
preformation as, 125–126, 133, 148, 167, 169, 171, 201
rejection of, 197
Russian dolls as, 123–137, 140–141
seed and field as, 32–33
about sex, 26, 69, 73, 236
spermists and, 149
string theory as, 133
test of, 239–240
of vital force, 249
Tissot, Samuel, 159
A Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism, 158
tissue, 21
embryos and, 224
nourishment of, 86
Toft, Mary, 159, 164 (fig.)
confession from, 163
hoax by, 160–161
Tolstoy, Leo, 155
tools, 9
A Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism (Tissot), 158
Trembley, Abraham, 172, 173, 175
trichinosis, 261, 290n
Trobriand Islands, 28–29
University of Bologna, 209, 241
University of Edinburgh, 60, 243
University of Königsberg, 256
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences (Wigner), 128
uterus, 88, 94
mysteries of, 98
to Royal Society, 95
Vesalius, Andreas, 64
Fabric of the Human Body by, 70
On the Fabric of the Human Body by, 55, 55 (fig.), 58
skeleton by, 57
Virchow, Rudolf, 259–261
vital force, 251
action of, 248
body and, 185
electricity as, 228
question of, 246–247
search for, 10
spirit as, 127
theories of, 249
vivisection, 62
volcano, 210
Volta, Alexander, 239
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 155
wasps, 140 (fig.)
water, 104, 106, 172
Watts, Isaac, 36
whales, 111
Whitman, Walt, 240
Wiesner, Merry, 76
Wigner, Eugene, 128
“The Wise Men of Godliman” (drawing, Hogarth), 163, 164 (fig.)
witches, 65, 66
Witten, Edward, 133
Wöhler, Friedrich, 249–250
women, 16–17, 200, 209
analogies for, 168
anatomy of, 20
Aristotle on, 77
beliefs about, 32, 98
defense of, 99
dissection of, 50, 54
eggs and, 69, 125
orgasms for, 72
pregnancy for, 162
reproduction for, 74
sex and, 19, 28
transparency of, 45
Wren, Christopher, 110
Yanomami, 33
zoologist, 263
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