by Francisco Pelayo López · Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788400099091
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«La mirada de Medusa» is the popular science essay by Francisco Pelayo López, in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish), published by the CSIC.
Starting from the myth of Medusa, it explains how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century scientists interpreted the petrification of human bodies: seismic vapours, petrifying juices, giants or victims of the Flood. From the cultural history of science, it analyses the influence of the classics and the Bible on the study of human fossils.
It is part of the collection «¿Qué sabemos de?» as volume 61. First edition published on 23 March 2015.
A popular science work for those interested in the history of science, palaeontology and the classical imagination.
