Today in Labor History February 16, 1834: Ernst Haeckel was born. He was a zoologist, physician, artist, and one of the earliest proponents of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. He discovered and named thousands of organisms. He coined the terms: Ecology, phylum, phylogeny and protista. Haeckel made beautiful drawings of thousands of plant, animal and marine organisms, collected in his book, “Kunstformen der Natur” (Art Forms of Nature). His biological drawings influenced the art nouveau movement. His books were banned by the Nazis, yet he was a eugenicist and a supporter of scientific racism and Social Darwinism, views which contributed to the rise of Nazism.

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In the mail this beautiful booklet by Ernst Haeckel on "Crystal Souls, Studies on Inorganic Life", a third edition from 1925. It is like cybernetics, but without the concept of feedback and 30 years too early; the text aims to close the gap between crystallography and psychology.

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Los impresionantes dibujos científicos de Ernst Haeckel que inspiraron el Art Nouveau

Ernst Haeckel, biólogo, filósofo y defensor del darwinismo, dejó una huella indeleble tanto en la ciencia como en el arte. En su serie de dibujos titulada 'Kunstformen der Natur', publicada en 1889, Haeckel plasmó de manera magistral especies de flora y fauna, muchos de los cuales parecían casi abst... [Ver más]

Very interesting (Paleo- ?) Darwinist reading from the time the word 'genetics' was not yet used in this context.

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