stephoidea tympanidium fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm produced by George Pal

produced by George Pal

Place of origin: Mexico

and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868)

License: loc

Original from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

stephoidea tympanidium fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm produced by George PalIf proof were needed that nature invented geometry first, it is here. The radiolarians of this plate are microscopic, single celled organisms that build impossibly intricate skeletons from silica rings, lattices and arched frameworks that look like the work of a master architect. Ernst Haeckel, who discovered and named thousands of radiolarian species, drew them in luminous detail against a dark ground, every strut and sphere perfectly placed. The