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.

For instance, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s incredibly detailed drawings, made during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shed light on the microscopic organisms that populate our world.

If you think Haeckel is exaggerating, spend an hour with “The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel,” a glorious, oversize volume collecting Haeckel’s artistic work, and you’ll be an instant ...

As we discover in Haeckel’s Embryos, German biologist Ernst Haeckel included illustrations of the embryological stages of vertebrates in a series of books published between 1868 and 1908 ...

Ernst Haeckel's 'art forms in nature'. The “argument from design” held that the wondrous forms and mechanisms of the created Universe bear irrefutable witness to the existence of a supreme ...