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 ...

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 ...

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 (1834–1919): Development of the Embryo, Development of the Race. Ernst Haeckel, Professor of Zoology at Jena, was an unusual person—a traveler-savant, embryologist, artist, ultra ...

The sketch was by Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist born in 1834 who ... Over the course of five years, starting in 1899, he produced 100 plates of illustrations.

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., ...

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 ...

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.