Cuando los pájaros y las abejas no eran suficientes: obra maestra de Aristóteles
Illustration of a “hairy child” born in France in 1597, with umbilical cord sprouting from the forehead, from an 1831 edition of Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Illustration of a “monster” born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1512: the X and Y markings shown on the body an uncannily prophetic nod to how human sex chromosomes are now named
Frontispiece to the 1788 New York edition
Illustration of a “monster” born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1512: the X and Y markings shown on the body an uncannily prophetic nod to how human sex chromosomes are now named
Frontispiece to the 1788 New York edition
When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual — first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions — both taught and titillated through the early modern period and beyond.
Cuando los pájaros y las abejas no eran suficientes: obra maestra de Aristóteles
Mary Fissell sobre cómo un manual de sexo popular, publicado por primera vez en el siglo XVII en Londres y reimpreso en cientos de ediciones posteriores, enseñó y estimuló a través del período moderno temprano y más allá.
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