The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins is one of my all time favorite books--in the top 5! The illustrations are intricate and inspiring...some of the most wonderful science illustration I've ever seen. It's just beautiful! The book is about Waterhouse Hawkins, a scultpor and artist who worked with paleontologists in Victorian England. Very few fossils were known at the time, and certainly not complete. With comparative anatomy, he and his collegues visualized what they thought dinosaurs may have looked like. Some of it was right, and some wrong...but the important thing was the process, and the show!
