The embryo plates in the fourth (1873) edition of Haeckel’s Schöpfungsgeschichte.
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.
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Plates Comparing Vertebrate Embryos
Artist
Date
1873
From
Schöpfungsgeschichte
