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020 _a978-0-486-22987-4
040 _aB-IKIAM
041 _aeng
082 _a570.22
_bH133a
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_aHaeckel, Ernst
245 _aArt Forms In Nature
_b: 100 Plates
_cErnst Haeckel
260 _aNew York
_bDover
_c2013
300 _a100 p.
_bImagenes
_c31 cm.
500 _aThe geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world famous. Haeckel's portfolio, first published between 1899 and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion of the "unity of all living things" and the wide variety of forms are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms are
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_aB-IKIAM
_cBK
_b19-05-20106
_zBrayan Robles