The 19th century was the age of machines. Scientific innovation and raw materials extracted from expanding colonial conquest transformed Europe from an agrarian, feudal subcontinent into a powerhouse ...

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 ...

“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.

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 stunning image that opens the Siphonophorae chapter in The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Each gelatinous siphonophore is actually a group of colonial organisms all living and working together.

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 ...

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 ...

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 influential evolutionary scientist, who coined such terms as ‘stem cell’ and ‘ecology’, was also a virtuoso illustrator. The editor of a new book celebrating this work introduces some highlights ...