The earliest known copies of embryos from Haeckel’s Schöpfungsgeschichte appear on the same lithograph as authoritative drawings by leading embryologists in Henry Chapman’s Evolution of Life (1873).
Featured on PDR in the essay Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution
Copying — unoriginal, dull, and derivative by definition — can be creative, contested, and consequential in its effects. Nick Hopwood tracks Haeckel’s embryos, some of the most controversial pictures in the history of science, and explores how copying put them among the most widely seen.
Also appearing in the essay…
Embryos in Different Animals
Date
1873
From
Evolution of Life
