The 19th century was the age of machines. Scientific innovation and raw materials extracted from expanding colonial conquest transformed Europe from an agrarian, feudal subcontinent into a powerhouse ...
A new monograph reveals Ernst Haeckel’s marvelous work in all its incredible detail. Not all contributions to science come in the form of numbers. For instance, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s ...
Art Nouveau’s organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration. With serpentine flourishes, a contrasting play of symmetry and asymmetry, and precise, vibrant colors, the zoological ...
Toward the end of his best-selling book “Die Welträthsel” (“The Riddle of the Universe,” 1899), the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) offered an easy solution to one of the minor riddles ...
Introduction: Ernst Haeckel : art forms in life = Einleitung: Ernst Haeckel : Kunstformen des Lebens = Introduction: Ernst Haeckel : les formes artistiques de la vie / Rainer Willmann -- Ernst Haeckel ...
A new book celebrating the science illustrations of Ernst Haeckel has surpassed its funding target on Kickstarter. The book features numerous drawings of microorganisms by the German zoologist and ...
From the early cave paintings in Lascaux in the Southwest of France, painted with hands and hollow bone, to the ethically questionable practice of plastination, humankind has tried to preserve the ...
On the coast of Sicily, a man sits hunched over a microscope peering at what look to be grains of sand. It's the late 1870s, and these specimens are mineral-shelled protozoans called radiolarians ...
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