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 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.

Not all contributions to science come in the form of numbers. For instance, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s incredibly detailed drawings, made during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shed ...

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 ...

The best way to enter the Exposition Universelle, held in Paris in 1900, was via the gate on the Place de la Concorde. As was appropriate for a world fair exhibiting the best technology that 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 ...

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 ...

After completing his studies in medicine and biology, a restless Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859 to study art and marine biology. The diversity of life fascinated the 26-year-old Prussian, and ...