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Dictyocerus Virchowii and Dictyopodium trilobum.


So now we know where Future Systems get their inspiration. These two exquisitely rendered radiolarians (Dictyocerus Virchowii and Dictyopodium trilobum) are taken from Art Forms from the Ocean, Ernst Haeckel Written by ajmanitara Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 — August 9, 1919),[1] also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. : Munich, Prestel, 2005, [pounds sterling]12.99, a reprint reprint An individually bound copy of an article in a journal or science communication  of Haeckel's celebrated 1862 Radiolarian Monograph. Radiolarians, since you ask, are microscopic, single-celled protozoa distinguished by a spherical spher·i·cal
adj.
Having the shape of or approximating a sphere; globular.
 or helmet-like skeleton. Some 5000 species of radiolarians are now known to inhabit the world's oceans and nineteenth-century German zoologist Ernst Haeckel made them his life's work Life's Work is a sitcom that aired from 1996 to 1997 on the American Broadcasting Company channel that starred Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, the assistant district attorney who had a husband named Kevin Hunter , producing a classification system and a wealth of anatomical illustrations. Haeckel's meticulously observed drawings give an insight into the humblest manifestation of organic life, which, despite its microscopic size, has immense richness and complexity.

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Publication:The Architectural Review
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Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Jul 1, 2005
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