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Ernst Haeckel 
Art Forms in Nature 

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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the present ― converted tens of thousands of readers all over the world. Today, although no one is greatly interested in Haeckel the biologist-philosopher, his work is increasingly prized for something he himself would probably have considered secondary. These are the remarkable plates with which his work was illustrated, particularly his famous
Kunstformen.


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Kunstformen contains 100 beautiful lithographic plates which show a multitude of unusual life forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, and other forms of microscopic life; jellyfishes, starfishes, calcareous sponges, star corals, barnacles, and other sea life; mosses, lichens, red algae, ferns, fungi, orchids, and other plants; and turtles,  moths, spiders, bats, frogs, lizards, hummingbirds, and antelope. With many drawings on each plate, each carefully drawn from nature, the subtle details of nature’s art forms are easily compared and appreciated.

In addition to being marvelous renderings, these plates have long been noted for the peculiar emotional appeal that they have for most viewers, a premonition of surrealism with exotic organic life forms stretching back to their roots in the inorganic, and individual details drawn with awareness of subtle evolutionary changes and millennia-long developments. Artists, illustrators, and others will find them still powerful as one of the landmarks of applied art. 


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Table of Content

1 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

2 Various species of Foraminifera (a type of marine Protozoa)

3 Various species of Ciliata (a class of Protozoa)

4 Various species of diatoms (a type of unicellular plant)

5 Various species of calcareous sponges

6 Various species of Tubulariidae (animals in the same biological class as hydras)

7 Various species of Siphonophora (in the same class as hydras)

8 Various species of Semaeostomeae (the most familiar order of jellyfishes)

9 Various species of star corals

10 Various types of starfishes

11 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

12 Various species of Protozoa related to the Foraminifera

13 Various species of flagellates (a class of Protozoa)

14 ‘Various species of Dinoflagellata (an order of the class of flagellates, formerly considered to be unicellular plants)’

15 Various species of brown seaweed (algae)

16 Various species of Narcomedusae (in the same class as hydras)

17 Various species of Siphonophora (in the same class as hydras)

18 Various species of jellyfishes

19 ‘Various species of Pennatulacea (sea pens, a type of soft coral)’

20 Various species of sea-lilies (animals related to starfishes and sea-urchins)

21 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

22 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

23 Various species of moss animals (marine animals living in colonies)

24 Various species of Desmidiaceae (a type of unicellular algae)

25 Various species of Sertulariidae (a family of hydriod polyps)

26 Various species of Trachymedusae (related to hydras)

27 Various species of Cydippida (an order of comb jellies)

28 Various species of Rhizostomeae (an order of jellyfishes)

29 Various species of star corals

30 Various species of sea-urchins

31 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

32 Various species of rotifers (a class of animals related to roundworms)

33 Various species of moss animals (marine animals living in colonies)

34 Various species of Hydrodictyaceae (colonial algae)

35 Various species of glass sponges

36 Various types of leptomedusae (related to hydras)

37 A species of Siphonophora (in the same class as hydras)

38 Various species of Periphylla (a genus of jellyfishes)

39 Various species of horny corals

40 Various species of starfishes

41 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

42 Various species of trunkfishes

43 Various species of true sea slugs (Nudibranchia)

44 Shells of various ammonites (extinct cephalopods)

45 Various species of Campanulariidae (a family of hydroid polyps)

46 Various types of anthomedusae (hydroids)

47 Horseshoe crabs (center) and various species of their extinct ancestors (trilobites)

48 Various species of stalked jellyfishes

49 Various species of sea anemones (animals related to corals)

50 Various species of sea-cucumbers (related to sea-urchins and starfishes)

51 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

52 Various species of Polyodiaceae (a family of ferns)

53 Various species of marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia

54 Various species of octopuses

55 Various species of bivalves of the subclass Lamellibranchia

56 Various species of crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda

57 Various species of Cirripedia (barnacles and allies). The crab in the center is harboring a parasitic species of this subclass

58 Various species of plume moths and of moths of the family Tinaeidae

59 A species of Siphonophora (in the same class as hydras)

60 Various species of sea-urchins

61 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

62 A Malaysian pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes

63 Various species of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes

64 Various species of algae of the order of Siphonales

65 Various species of red algae (Rhodophyceae)

66 Various species of spiders and ticks

67 Various species of bats

68 ‘Various species of frogs, including tree frogs’

69 Various species of star corals

70 Various species of Gorgon-headed starfishes

71 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

72 Various species of mosses

73 Various species of fungi of the class Ascomycetes

74 Various species of orchids

75 Various species of flukes and tapeworms

76 Various species of crustaceans

77 Various species of Siphonophora (in the same class as hydras)

78 Various species of sea wasps (an order of jellyfishes)

79 ‘Various species of tropical lizards, including chameleon, gecko and collard lizard’

80 ‘Various species of Blastoidea, extinct relative of starfishes’

81 Various species of Foraminifera (a type of marine Protozoa)

82 Various species of liverworts (related to mosses)

83 Various species of lichens

84 Various species of diatoms (a type of unicellular plant)

85 Various species of sea-squirts (a class of marine chordate animals)

86 Various species of crabs and crayfishes

87 ‘Two types of seahorse, a dragonfish and a frogfish, with a variety of fish scales’

88 Various species of Rhizostomeae (an order of jellyfishes)

89 Various species of turtles and tortoises

90 ‘Various species of Cystoidea, extinct allies of the starfishes’

91 Various species of Radiolaria (a type of marine Protozoa)

92 Tree ferns

93 ‘Various species of slime molds, considered by some to be plants (class Myxomycetes), by others to be animals (Mycetozoa)’

94 The fruit of various species of conifers

95 ‘Various species of extinct allies of the starfishes, and larvae of several extant related species’

96 Various species of Polychaeta (a class of marine segmented worms)

97 Various species of lamp-shells (phylum Brachiopoda)

98 Various species of Semaeostomeae (the most familiar order of jellyfishes)

99 Various species of hummingbirds

100 Various species of antelopes
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 112 ● ISBN 9780486155326 ● File size 35.2 MB ● Publisher Dover Publications ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5272215 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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