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Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel
"The book Art Forms in Nature is an epoch-making work. It was the showpiece of a respectable household and fulfilled a very particular purpose; its contents were, like nature, beautiful, for nature-...The central composition..captivates the eye of the beholder. He used this principle to exemplify funciton in relation to form within the meaning of ecology...in his illustrative plates."