Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hopwood, Nick

Publication

• Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919

Description

vii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subject

• Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919
• Haeckel, Ernst 1834-1919
• Embryology
• Embryos
• Embryos > Pictorial works
• Evolution (Biology) > History
• Scientific illustration > History
• Visual communication in science
• Evolution (Biology)
• Scientific illustration
• SCIENCE > General
• Embryo's

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) 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.

Call Number

JSF 15-37

ISBN

• 9780226046945
• 022604694X
• 9780226047133 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014016887

OCLC

879552844

Author

Hopwood, Nick, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index.

Added Author

Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919, illustrator.

Research Call Number

JSF 15-37