Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud / Nick Hopwood.

  • Hopwood, Nick
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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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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    History of Medicine
    DC /HOP
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ISBN

  • 9780226046945
  • 022604694X