Review of: Hopwood, Nick: Embryos in wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio. Cambridge: Univ. of Cambridge 2002
Abstract
This book collects forty-five biographies of scientists written by thirty-eight authors from the universities of North Catalunya (France) and South Catalunya (Spain).An approximate classification, using the categories of today's science, allows us to identify twelve people who worked in biology, seven in engineering and technology, seven in geology, five in mathematics, five in health studies, five in physics, two in architecture, and two in astronomy.Each biography includes pictures of the scientist and notes his workplace and the books or papers that he wrote.The particular contributions by each scientist to scientific developments in Catalunya are described.The criteria used to decide who should be included are the following: they lived between 1850 and the present and worked in the physical and mathematical sciences, chemistry, into being.What the reader will not find here is a discussion of scientific issues that dominate the news today-the debate in the United States between Christian fundamentalists and evolutionists, the rise of alternative medicine, animal rights, and fraud.Does this book fall short of its lofty goals?Yes; but it uses many rapid brush strokes to paint a large-scale canvas of the changing scientific landscape.JUDITH R. GOODSTEIN Joseph C. Hermanowicz.The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists-Their Passions and Professions.xvi ם 268 pp., figs., tables, apps., bibl., index.Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.$45 (cloth); $15 (paper)
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