Atoms, Molecules & Ions
The next step to getting a five.
Ernst Haeckel – philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work – Art Forms of Nature – began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.
Is it science? Is it art? Vulgar? Macabre perhaps. You decide for yourself. The popular “Body Worlds” takes donated human corpses and ‘plasticizes’ them into everyday positions for all to see. They will not decay, age or change in any way unless someone steals a lung or something. Body Worlds does in plastics what mummification only came close to achieving; attain a form of immortality.
Bacteria can create a beautiful art that can only be seen with the use of a microscope.
Graceful and beautiful, the swan has long fascinated us. Here are some interesting facts about the exquisite creature.