Just The Write Type

"[It's] as if it’s a whimsical fantasy he dreamed up rather than a real creature he examined under a microscope. His drawings of sponges reveal their intensely geometric structure—they look architectural, like feats of engineering.”

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel—German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and physician—not only "described and named thousands of species" and "coined several scientific terms commonly known today (such as ecology, phylum, and stem cell)," he also created gorgeous illustrations.
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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889) If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have nothing to say to each other. That’s a sadly false impression, though they have become almost entirely separate professional institutions.

"The simplest questions could carry you out to the edge of human knowledge."

How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.