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.
Featured on PDR in the essay 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.
Also appearing in the essay…
A “Hairy Child” Born in France in 1597
Date
1831
From
Aristotle’s Masterpiece
