Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud /

Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hopwood, Nick (Author)
Other Authors: Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919 (Illustrator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Haeckel, Ernst, > 1834-1919.
Embryology.
Embryos > Pictorial works.
Embryos.
Evolution (Biology) > History.
Scientific illustration > History.
Visual communication in science.
Online Access:CONNECT (1 user limit)
Table of 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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