Embryos in Wax

A history of modelling embryos in wax, and guide to models by the Ziegler studio. This accessible, highly illustrated history is about embryos, images and wax. Many embryos we see today on the Net were first visualized in the nineteenth-century, not just on paper, but also as 3-D models. Embryos in wax shows how these were made and used to communicate new views of development, in pregnancy and in evolution. It is also a guide to the finest embryological waxes preserved in institutes and museums worldwide.