work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7179,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-01-25 20:11:01 UTC,"Chapter. III. Of the Nature of Generative Seed.
Aristotle, that Sperm is that thing which contains in it self a power of moving, whereby 'tis enabled to produce a Being like unto that from whence it was emitted. Pythagoras, that Seed is the Sediment of that which nourisheth us, the Froth of the purest Blood, of the same Nature is the Blood and Marrow of our Bodies. Alcmaeon, it is a part of the Brain. Plato, it is the Deflux of the spinal Marrow. Epicurus, that it is a Fragment torn from the Body and Soul. Democritus, that Sperm proceeds from all the parts of Body, and chiefly from the principal parts of the Bodies (viz.) the Carneous Fibres and Bones.
(V.iii, p. 206)",,19537,"","""Epicurus, that it [sperm] is a Fragment torn from the Body and Soul.""","",2012-01-25 20:11:01 UTC,"Book V, Chapter iii"
7179,"","",2012-01-25 20:14:27 UTC,"Chapter IV. Whether the Sperm be a Body
Lausippus and Zeno, 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul. Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, that the Spermatick Faculty is incorporeal, as the Mind is which moves the Body, but the effused Matter is corporeal.
(V.iv, p. 207)",,19538,"","""""Lausippus and Zeno, [sperm] 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul.""","",2012-01-25 20:14:53 UTC,"Book V, Chapter iv"
7179,"",Searching in Google Books,2012-01-25 20:17:00 UTC,"Chapter IV. Whether the Sperm be a Body
Lausippus and Zeno, 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul. Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, that the Spermatick Faculty is incorporeal, as the Mind is which moves the Body, but the effused Matter is corporeal.
(V.iv, p. 207)",,19539,"","""Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, that the Spermatick Faculty is incorporeal, as the Mind is which moves the Body, but the effused Matter is corporeal.""","",2012-01-25 20:17:11 UTC,"Book V, Chapter iv"