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Title Haeckel's embryos : images, evolution, and fraud / Nick Hopwood.
Author Hopwood, Nick, author.
Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
©2015
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  576.8 HOP    Check Shelves
Description vii, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
Subject Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919.
Embryology.
Embryos.
Embryos -- Pictorial works.
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Scientific illustration -- History.
Visual communication in science.
Genre History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919, illustrator.
ISBN 9780226046945 (hardcover) : $45.00
022604694X (hardcover)
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