Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud / Nick Hopwood.
- Hopwood, Nick
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Physical description
vii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-372) and index.
Contents
Icons of knowledge -- Two small embryos in spirits of wine -- Like flies on the parlor ceiling -- Drawing and Darwinism -- Illustrating the magic word -- Professors and progress -- Visual strategies -- Schematics, forgery, and the so-called educated -- Imperial grids -- Setting standards -- Forbidden fruit -- Creative copying -- Trials and tributes -- Scandal for the people -- A hundred Haeckels -- The textbook illustration -- Iconoclasm -- The shock of the copy.
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Location Status History of MedicineDC /HOPOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780226046945
- 022604694X