Tag: Wonderful Births and Beginning in The Modern Age. Topics in the History of Culture and Ideas

Massimo Angelini: Wonderful Births and Beginning in The Modern Age. Topics in the History of Culture and Ideas

Abstract Before the experimentalembryologyand, later, ofgenetics, how could oneexplainthe similarity betweenparents and children ortheir too evidentdissimilarity? It could be explainedbythe wonderful powerattributedto women’s imaginationto influence the fetusduring pregnancy,up tochangeits shapeand appearance.As a result ofan intensefantasyoras a result ofa suddenfright,the figure…