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Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth

by Matthew Cobb, Bloomsburry Publishing; $24. 95

Ovid and Virgil, two of ancient Rome's greatest poets, both gave the same cockamamy recipe tor creating bees: Dig a very large hole; insert one dead bull; cover with earth, leaving nothing but the horns sticking out of the ground: wait several weeks; cut oft the horns near the ground. Swarms of bees should now emerge ...

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