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 ...

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 ...

Evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel became the first person to define the term ecology in his work published in 1866, entitled 'General Morphology of Organisms'. Science historians and biologists ...

Haeckel was a medical student in the 1850s just after the cell had been discovered and when the "science of the sea" was slowly developing. Like many idealistic young scientists, he expected ...

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 ...

The purpose of “Art Forms in Nature”, Haeckel’s masterpiece, was “to combine exquisite beauty with the greatest possible truth to nature.” Over the course of five years, starting in 1899 ...

Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature Haeckel_Kunstformen_100.jpg Originally uploaded by EricGjerde *Wow, looks like the guy put the entire book in FlickR. Terrific resource.

This – in German – is how evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel became the first person to define the term ecology in his work published in 1866, entitled "General Morphology of Organisms".