If you follow Continuous Beef Many Popular Scientists Having a philosophy will allow you to think that two fields have nothing to say to each other. It’s a sadly false impression, but they have become almost entirely separate professional institutions. However, during the first, for example, 200 years of modern science, scientists were “natural philosophers.” Many were familiar with logic, metaphysics, or theology that was found in mathematics and taxonomy. And most of them were artists of some sort too. Scientists had to learn to draw to explain their discoveries before mass-produced photography and computer imaging would do that for them. Many scientists are certainly great artists, rivaling great people, they I also made some very wonderful musicians..
And there is Ernst Heinrich HeckelGerman biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician, and proponents of Darwinism, who described and cited thousands of species, mapped them to genealogy trees and “produced some scientific terms commonly known today.” This is huge It says, “ecology, phylum, stem cells, etc.” That’s an impressive resume. Oh, and check out his art – his brilliantly colored, elegantly rendered, highly stylized, highly stylized, “flora and fauna,” depicting the design that influenced the art Nouveau movement of microorganisms and natural patterns. “Each living creature heckel drew has almost an abstract shape,” says Catherine Schwab. Fast Co. Design“It was like a whimsical fantasy he dreamed of, not a real creature he examined under a microscope. His drawings of the sponge reveal their strong geometric structures.
Haeckel published 100 amazing prints in 1889. Kunstformen der Natur (“Art Forms in Nature”), collected in 1904 in two volumes. The incredible work “was not just an illustrated book, but also a sum of the views of the world,” a genuine embrace of the new science of Darwin’s evolution, written in 2006 by scholar Olaf Breidbach. Vision of nature.
Heckel’s method was the overall way in which art, science, and philosophy were complementary approaches to the same subject. He “sought to protect the attention of people interested in the beauty of nature,” wrote Professor Raynor Wilman of Zoology. Reservations from Taschen will be called Ernst Heckel’s Art and Science“And highlighting the proximity of these two domains through this rare example of the interaction between science and aesthetics.”
Gorgeous Tashen book It contains 450 Heckel drawings, watercolors and sketches spanning 704 pages, making it expensive. But you can see all 100 of Haeckel Here, the first published prints with zoomable high resolution scans. Or buy a reprint of the original volume 1 Art form in naturethere are 100 brilliant prints This Dover PublicationsHeckel’s art “caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe…” Today, no one has much interest in the biologist and philosopher Heckel, but his work is increasingly appreciated for what he himself would have probably considered secondary.” If so, it’s a shame that his scientific legacy is ignored, but it certainly lives on through his art.
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