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Attempt to create a Homunculus somewhere in Russia

Attempt to create a Homunculus in Russia

2015

Above all else, I ought to most likely clarify what the heck a HOMUNCULUS is, for those of you who aren't addicted to mysterious legends: as indicated by the compositions of antiquated speculative chemistry going back as ahead of schedule as the 16th century, the homunculus is a living smaller than expected humanoid (the name in Latin actually signifies "little man") developed from human sperm.  Researchers of that time hypothesized that the majority of a person's heredity may exist in small size inside a sperm cell — and through the direction of a prepared chemist, a smaller than expected human could really be hatched outside of a human womb.   Soothsayer Paracelsus wrote in his 1537 volume De Natura Rerum that he had really achieved this... Read More