“A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature” pairs the author's scientific treasures with art loaned by international museums, cultural institutions and private collectors.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The marine zoologist Ernst Haeckel was renowned as the “German Darwin” and author-illustrator of Art Forms in Nature. Less well known is his activity as an amateur anthropologist following his trip to ...

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 ...

Medusa plates, ‘Challenger Reports, vol. 4’ (1882), Royal Society Edinburgh Archive (all images from ‘Art Forms from the Abyss: Ernst Haeckel’s Images From The HMS Challenger Expedition,’ courtesy ...

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