Ernst Haeckel

《恩斯特·海克尔》

Hardcover : 512 pages

ISBN-10 : 383658428X

ISBN-13 : 978-3836584289

Product Dimensions :165 x 226 x 45 mm/1.45kg

Publisher : TASCHEN (September 6, 2020)

Language: : English

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

恩斯特·海克尔(1834-1919)，生于德国，生物学家、博物学家、进化论者、艺术家、哲学家和博士。他毕生致力于从山峰到最深的海洋的动植物研究。

作为达尔文进化论的大力支持者和发展者，他撰写哲学论文，获得动物学博士学位，创造了一些科学术语，这些术语后来被广泛使用，包括生态学、门和干细胞。

海克尔巨大遗产的核心，不仅是探索的动机，也是解释的动机。

为了做到这一点，他创作了数百幅详细的素描、水彩画和他发现的草图，并连续出版成册，包括几本海洋生物作品集和宏伟的Kunstformen der Natur(自然艺术形式)，这可以作为海克尔整个生命计划的基石。

海克尔的作品就像一部细致入微的生物视觉百科全书，其精妙的图形和精细的阴影效果与对有机进化的理解一样引人注目。

从蝙蝠到箱形水母，从蜥蜴到地衣，从蜘蛛腿到海葵，海克尔强调了自然的基本对称性和秩序，甚至在最不可能的生物身上也发现了生物之美。

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin’s theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, authored philosophical treatises, gained a doctorate in zoology, and coined scientific terms which have passed into common usage, including ecology, phylum, and stem cell.

At the heart of Haeckel’s colossal legacy was the motivation not only to discover but also to explain. To do this, he created hundreds of detailed drawings, watercolors, and sketches of his findings which he published in successive volumes, including several marine organism collections and the majestic Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), which could serve as the cornerstone of Haeckel’s entire life project. Like a meticulous visual encyclopedia of living things, Haeckel’s work was as remarkable for its graphic precision and meticulous shading as for its understanding of organic evolution. From bats to the box jellyfish, lizards to lichen, and spider legs to sea anemones, Haeckel emphasized the essential symmetries and order of nature, and found biological beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures.