This image, depicting what historians now refer to as the homunculus, has become iconic of the theory of preformationism, and appears in almost every textbook concerning the history of embryological science.
Gambar ini, menggambarkan apa yang sekarang disebut para sejarawan sebagai homunculus, telah menjadi ikon teori preformationism, dan muncul di hampir setiap buku teks tentang sejarah ilmu embriologis.