A new book celebrating the science illustrations of Ernst Haeckel has launched on Kickstarter. The book features numerous drawings of microorganisms by the German zoologist and naturalist who ...

Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 “Kunstformen der Natur” [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer.

Haeckel is perhaps best known for Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), an illustrated volume cataloguing the various plants, animals and minerals he encountered during his career. He used art ...

Fungi, Art Forms in Nature, 1899–1904, plate 63. All images ©Taschen / Lower Saxony State / University Library Göttingen unless otherwise stated You might not know Ernst Haeckel’s name, but you will ...

Ernst Haeckel's Bizarre, Refuted "Theory of Recapitulation" Explored in New Book What we thought embryos looked like before ultrasounds. by Tiffany Jeung Oct. 20, 2018 ...

Ernst Haeckel's 'art forms in nature'. The “argument from design” held that the wondrous forms and mechanisms of the created Universe bear irrefutable witness to the existence of a supreme ...

Image of title page of The history of creation or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the actions of natural causes / from the German of Ernst Haeckel. London : Henry S. King & Co., ...

But two things elevated his work beyond mere draftsmanship. The first was that it was beautiful, as “The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel”, a new book reproducing 450 of his prints, makes clear.