He was, indeed, the first German biologist to give a whole-hearted adherence to the doctrine of organic evolution and to treat it as the cardinal conception of modern biology.

Gorgeous prints, as virtually everyone agrees, but the first of the two introductory essays really fell flat. Is copyright infringement the reason why the 1914 second edition was abridged from 100 to 30 plates? This output of systematic and descriptive work would alone have constituted a good life’s work, but Haeckel in addition wrote copiously on biological theory. What he termed the integration of his views on these subjects he published under the title of Die Welträtsel (1899), which in 1901 appeared in English as The Riddle of the Universe. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The introductory essays provided good background material as well, although it would have been nice to hear more of Haeckel's own voice. Not content with the study of the doctrine of evolution in its zoological aspects, Haeckel also applied it to some of the oldest problems of philosophy and religion. There are some pictures of coral skeletons that instantly transport the reader to a somber world; and then there is an explosion of color and movement in plant and living coral.

First published in 1904 under the German title Kunstformen der Natur, this unique collection of plates holds a lasting influence in both the art and science worlds. The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. Inspiration for the nature-lover, artist, or those like me who like to simply gaze in wonder at the infinite diversity and beauty, of lifeforms. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The spatial arrangement of organisms enhances the feeling of design, which is evocative of Art Nouveau style or some William Morris wallpapers.The introductory section is detailed and well-written (for an older audience than my son, of course) but Haeckel's images speak clearly without the need for explanation. He discovered, described and drew thousands of unknown species such as radiolaria and immortalised them in publications.

Marine Biological Laboratory Library - An exhibition of material on Haeckel, including background on many Kunstformen der Natur plates. El libro tiene 100 ilustraciones de diferentes especies, cada una del tamaño de una hoja entera, En la parte inferior vienen numeradas y con el nombre de la especie que varían entre plantas, animales de mar, aves, algas, etc. Deep-Sea Medusae (1881), Siphonophora (1888), Deep-Sea Keratosa (1889) and Radiolaria (1887), the last being accompanied by 140 plates and enumerating over four thousand new species.Moreover, the firmly established perceptions of mathematics and physics, which Kant explained as synthetic a priori judgements, originated by means of the phyletic development of the faculty of judgement and may be traced back to continually recurring a posteriori experiences and conclusions based thereupon. In this book, adopting an uncompromising monistic attitude, he asserted the essential unity of organic and inorganic nature. Some people have bought it to give them inspiration in their drawings, which I'm sure it does, I bought it to see if it would give me inspiration to do some unusual woodworking pieces, it does that too.

I felt like he rendered the natural world as something both amazingly beautiful and terrifying and I loved it. He regarded the human soul with its inborn characteristics of reason as a ready-made being and did not inquire into its historical origins . And while these are conceptually familiar, in Haeckel's rendering they are bizarre and other-worldly.University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - An Ernst Haeckel exhibition from 2005 pairing prints from Kunstformen der Natur with modern sculptures.