Purely speculative metaphysics, which were further developed from theories of apriorism established by Kant and which found its most radical advocate in Hegel, ultimately led to the utter rejection of empiricism and claimed that all knowledge is in fact acquired through pure reason, independent of all experience. Some people have bought it to give them inspiration in their drawings, which I'm sure it does, I bought it to see if it would give me inspiration to do some unusual woodworking pieces, it does that too. Expect to see pages devoted to seaweeds, seaslugs, jellyfish, crustaceans, bats, fish and reptiles for example. In this book, adopting an uncompromising monistic attitude, he asserted the essential unity of organic and inorganic nature. I had heard of Ernst Haeckel back in high school, his art is exceptionally captivating - so when I saw this book at the library, I didn’t hesitate on taking it home.

This volume is comprised of 100 illustrated plates featuring stunning watercolour paintings and pencil sketches. He regarded the human soul with its inborn characteristics of reason as a ready-made being and did not inquire into its historical origins .Kurt Stüber's Biolib - An online version of Kunstformen der Natur with scanned images of the 100 plates, accompanying descriptions, table of contents and supplemental pages (in German). The "necessity," which Kant ascribed to a particular characteristic of these a priori judgements were these phenomena and conditions fully known. Kunstformen der Natur (known in English as Art Forms in Nature) is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. He was a biologist who discover many different species, some relatively minuscule species - generally varieties of flora and fauna.

Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.One prominent example is the Amsterdam Commodities Exchange designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage: it was in part inspired by Kunstformen illustrations. So many pages sent me off to the web for videos, images, and articles about the bizarre natural beauties.