Reviews for Application of Science in Examination of Works of Art

The average rating for Application of Science in Examination of Works of Art based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-18 00:00:00 KEVIN AYVAR Any Canadians out there who love true crime will like this book! Arsenic Milkshake is a fascinating read about the evolution of forensic science in Canada. The author uses true cases to go through different aspects of forensics to show how they are used and how they evolved. What is really interesting is that this book was written in the 1990s, so before DNA really took off, and before the age of the Internet! So, it's rocket science up until that point, with good old fashioned sleuthing and scientific methods. This is a great read, which shows how Canada is involved in breakthrough science!

Review # 2 was written on 2013-10-26 00:00:00 Christopher ROOP The book is a fascinating insight to the start, the first generation of Canada’s forensic field. As someone on the peripheries of the current forensic science field (friend of a friend and such), this book is quite accurate and well written in its depictions and descriptions (crunchy popcorn will never be the same). Most of the problems are still issues faced today; just the previous months I read a Toronto Star article trying to discredit the current chief forensic pathologist of Ontario. The book has a great appeal to people with science and non-science backgrounds alike, and has a decent summation of the science without going into too much jargon. It’s interesting to see how much has changed in a historical context, and yet how little has changed when it comes to the carriage of justice. I highly recommend this book to anyone remotely interested in the topic.