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Science 6 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5821, pp. 54 - 55
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141442
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Seeing Is Believing?

Harriet Ritvo

Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
by Jonathan Smith
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. 374 pp. $100, £60. ISBN 9780521856904. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
Smith explores how Darwin used images to support his scientific claims as well as the cultural influence of his evolutionary explanation for beauty.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: ritvo{at}mit.edu

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