The seeds of life: from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frog's pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Time Line; PROLOGUE England in the Early 1630s; PART ONE: PEERING INTO THE BODY; ONE Onward to Glory; TWO Hidden in Deep Night; THREE Swallowing Stones and Drinking Dew; FOUR Unmoored in Time; FIVE "Double, Double Toil and Trouble"; SIX Door A or Door B?; PART TWO: THE SEARCH FOR THE EGG; SEVEN Missing: One Universe (Reward to Finder); EIGHT Sharks' Teeth and Cows' Eggs; NINE The Egg, At Last; TEN A World in a Drop of Water; ELEVEN "Animals of the Semen"; PART THREE: RUSSIAN DOLLS; TWELVE Dolls Within Dolls.

THIRTEEN The Message in God's Fine PrintFOURTEEN Sea of Troubles; FIFTEEN The Rabbit Woman of Godliman; SIXTEEN "All in Pieces, All Coherence Gone"; SEVENTEEN The Cathedral That Built Itself; EIGHTEEN A Vase in Silhouette; PART FOUR: THE CLOCKWORK TOPPLES AND A NEW THEORY RISES; NINETEEN Frogs in Silk Pants; TWENTY A Drop of Venom; TWENTY-ONE The Craze of the Century; TWENTY-TWO "I Saw the Dull Yellow Eye of the Creature Open"; TWENTY-THREE The Nose of the Sphinx; TWENTY-FOUR "The Game Is Afoot"; TWENTY-FIVE Caught!; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Illustration Credits; Bibliography; Notes.