Artforms of Nature


	Artforms of Nature
einbar
9-28-2009 3:10 AM
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The nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his fantastically illustrated book Artforms of Nature. The copyright for this book from 1904 has now expired and thanks to Wikimedia Commons it is available for everyone to appreciate.

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