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There are a couple of supposedly easy tasks (placing an ad for the loom, and another in the local paper for my yard sale)
Anne, you might want to put ads in the Mobtown Shank. It reaches a bunch of people in the area and a whole mess of them are knitters now. You can email the ad info to mobtownshank @ atomicbooks . com. And it's free.
Let me know when your yard sale is going to be! I know you're super busy now but I'd love to see you before you go.
Ooh! Thanks for the tip, lisah. The yard sale will be a week from this coming Saturday, most likely.
I'll put it in my calendar!
Thanks billytea and Ginger, and everyone else, too.
ita, Calli, who is Ayla?
Ayla is the heroine of the Clan of the Cave Bear series, by Jean M. Auel.
I think this is 17th century:
Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe sperm cells and with his very primitive microscope, thought he saw tiny body parts in the sperm. He used this as “proof” of the idea that the homunculus was in the sperm and the mother’s body just served as a place for the planted seed to grow. Apparently Leeuwenhoek, himself, did not claim the sperm was the homunculus, but that sperm provided major life-giving qualities. Regnier de Graaf, on the other hand, thought he saw the homunculus in the egg and that the sperm merely triggers its growth somehow. This split the preformationists: was the miniature adult in the egg (followers of de Graaf) or the sperm (followers of Leeuwenhoek)? Additionally, Leeuwenhoek proposed that fertilization occurs when the sperm enters the egg, but this could not actually be observed for another 100 years because of the quality of microscopes which were available. Most of the subsequent arguments as to the nature of embryos were based on speculation rather than research.
That's great, -t. Where did you find it?
Gronklies, all. Actually, I got semi-decent sleep last night, so I staggered in here in reasonable shape this morning and have been reasonably productive.
I have a team meeting in six minutes (argh) and I'm meeting a friend for lunch at the excellent thai place near here as soon as I can get out of here. Couldn't find my pictures from the PBP 2002 to show her though, they must be in a box downstairs.
It's from [link] about halfway down.
I was just going to post that my knowledge of early conception beliefs comes from Clan of the Cave Bear and probably not so helpful.