Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel, a zoologist who described thousands of marine species and coined the word ecology, was also a gifted illustrator. His Art Forms in Nature (1904), with plates of radiolarians, jellyfish and sea anemones, influenced Art Nouveau design. His science has a darker side: his embryo drawings were criticised as distorted, and his racial theories are rightly condemned. The art has outlasted much of the science.