Last updated: 14/11/2007

Penis-like organs of generation from Bartisch's Kunstbuche of 1575. 

On the right the front of the uterus is cut away to reveal its contents.  From Laquer, Making Sex.

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The vagina and uterus from Vesalius and Vidus Vidius (1611).  From Thomas Laquer Making Sex

Homunculus in sperm as imagined by Nicholas Hartsoeker in 1695.  From Julia Stonehouse (1994) From Idols to Incubators