What do you mean by a lie?
Steven Shapin: Haeckel’s Embryos, 5 May 2016
Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud
by Nick Hopwood.
Chicago, 388 pp., £31.50, May 2015,978 0 226 04694 5 Show More
by Nick Hopwood.
Chicago, 388 pp., £31.50, May 2015,
“... law visible and which impresses its meaning more vividly than language could ever do. As Nick Hopwood shows, this picture persists in present-day scientific discussions despite of – and in many cases because of – its being faulty or even fraudulent. The original version of the most famous of Haeckel’s embryo pictures was a woodcut spread ... ”
