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title: "Art Forms from the Ocean: The Radiolarian Prints of Ernst Haeckel Paperback – May 28, 2005"
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# Art Forms from the Ocean: The Radiolarian Prints of Ernst Haeckel Paperback – May 28, 2005

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- **What is this?** Art Forms from the Ocean: The Radiolarian Prints of Ernst Haeckel Paperback – May 28, 2005 by olaf breidbach
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## Customer Reviews

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    Get the Other Book by the Same Publisher
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2014*

The publisher has two Haeckel art books available, the other being ART FORMS IN NATURE, which is the better of the two. It is better because it contains a lot more of Haeckel's wonderful drawings than the OCEAN book. Many of the images from the NATURE book are duplicated in the OCEAN book, although there are some that are not in the NATURE book and some that are different in part.I love the artwork and find it hard to believe Haeckel produced all this and so much more fantastic work during his lifetime. The disappointing thing about both of these books is that, after an intro discussing Haeckel's life and work, there is no info about the specimens in the artwork apart from their scientific names. Many pages appear to be views of the same organism, but do the various images represent it at various stages of development or movement shown from different angles? Are the species shown on the same page related? There's just nothing but a name in Latin.So I highly recommend this book for the artwork (90% of more of which is not in color). If you enjoy incredibly detailed, expertly drawn images of mostly microscopic life in its magnificent intricacy, you'll like this and/or the NATURE book a lot. If you are looking for more information on the images, forget it as it isn't here.

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    Amazing and Little Known Organisms Illustrated
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2006*

Radiolarians are a total blank to the majority of people, yet these remarkable builders of glass houses (microscopic to be sure) abound in the world's oceans.  Ernst Haeckel, the Nineteenth Century German biologist and supporter of Darwin, wrote the most comprehensive monograph on the group in his Radiolarian Atlas of 1862, which is still in use today.  The illustrations have never been surpassed and so it is certainly a boon for microscopists that the plates have now been republished in all their glory as "Art Forms from the Ocean: The Radiolarian Atlas of 1862".  In many ways I wish that the text would have included descriptions of the radiolarians illustrated and their distributions, but that probably would have been of little interest to the general public.  Instead there is a discussion of Haeckel's life and work, especially of his involvement with radiolarians and other microscopic marine life.Still, for the price this is a real bargain, and I thus recommend this book just for the plates to any amateur or professional biologist who is interested in the micro planktonic organisms of the ocean.

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    Giftable
  

*by N***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2020*

Gave this as a gift to my brother in law who is a marine biologist. Beautiful illustrations and he loved it.

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