Haeckel’s Embryos
Images, Evolution, and Fraud
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

1 Icons of Knowledge
2 Two Small Embryos in Spirits of Wine
3 Like Flies on the Parlor Ceiling
4 Drawing and Darwinism
5 Illustrating the Magic Word
6 Professors and Progress
7 Visual Strategies
8 Schematics, Forgery, and the So-Called Educated
9 Imperial Grids
10 Setting Standards
11 Forbidden Fruit
12 Creative Copying
13 Trials and Tributes
14 Scandal for the People
15 A Hundred Haeckels
16 The Textbook Illustration
17 Iconoclasm
18 The Shock of the Copy
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Index
British Society for the History of Science: Pickstone Prize
Short Listed
SHARP: SHARP-DeLong Book History Prize
Honorable Mention
History of Science Society: Suzanne J. Levinson Prize
Won
Art: Art--General Studies
Biological Sciences: Anatomy | Evolutionary Biology
History: European History
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