Ernst Haeckel couldn’t make up his mind which of his great loves to follow: science or art. But, peering into a microscope one day, he chose both. It was to change our perception of art ...

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 ...

He coined many words in biology that we still use today, such as ecology, phylum and stem cell. Haeckel was outstanding as a scientific artist. Instead of drawing just a front view, he also ...

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 ...

These Gorgeous 19th-Century Drawings Of Microbes Are Science And Art A new monograph reveals Ernst Haeckel's marvelous work in all its incredible detail.

The sketch was by Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist born in 1834 who – though he had no formal art training – made his fame drawing microscopic sea creatures. With his left eye he would look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, a book written by Olaf Breidbach and published by Prestel. Haeckel’s drawings are credited with inspiring the Art Nouveau and Surrealist movements.

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 ...