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Hoy en día, prácticamente todo el conocimiento humano se encuentra al alcance de nuestra mano: basta hacer tres clics en Internet. Pero, ¿cómo llegamos a adquirir dicho conocimiento? Hicieron falta cientos y en ocasiones miles de años para comprender lo que en la actualidad nos parece evidente. El conocimiento es una aventura, una odisea extraordinaria cuyos pormenores se narran en esta colección. Hoy en día, todo el mundo sabe de dónde vienen los niños. Sin embargo, se trata de un descubrimiento más o menos reciente. En el siglo XVII, por ejemplo, aún se creía que una mujer podía dar luz un cangrejo, y en el siglo XVII se pensaba que había "polen de bebé" flotando en el aire. A un científico se lo ocurrió, incluso, ponerle calzones a los sapos para aclarar el misterio de la fecundación, el cual no fue resuelto sino hacia finales del siglo XIX.
These days, practically all of human knowledge is within reach with just three clicks online. But how do we acquire that knowledge? It took hundreds or even thousands of years to understand what now seems evident to us. Knowledge is an adventure, an extraordinary odyssey whose details are laid out in this collection. Nowadays, everyone knows where children come from. However, this is a fairly recent discovery. In the 17th century, for instance, it was still believed that a woman could give birth to a crab or that there was baby pollen floating in the air. One scientist even thought to put pants on toads to dispel the mystery of fertilization, which wasn’t resolved until the late 19th century.
These days, practically all of human knowledge is within reach with just three clicks online. But how do we acquire that knowledge? It took hundreds or even thousands of years to understand what now seems evident to us. Knowledge is an adventure, an extraordinary odyssey whose details are laid out in this collection. Nowadays, everyone knows where children come from. However, this is a fairly recent discovery. In the 17th century, for instance, it was still believed that a woman could give birth to a crab or that there was baby pollen floating in the air. One scientist even thought to put pants on toads to dispel the mystery of fertilization, which wasn’t resolved until the late 19th century.
