Stilled splashes: The physicist Arthur Worthington was intrigued by the beauty to be found in photographs of splashes produced when bodies of various shapes and sizes fall into fluids
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Arthur Worthington, profession of physics at the Royal Naval Engineering College in Devonport first revealed the complex configurations of 'simple' splashes in 1980. His 'A Study of Splashes' and photographic images show fleeting phases in splashes formed by falling bodies, effectively stilled in the light of a spark. His work was later submerged by Harold Edgerton who perfected his stroboscopic system to deliver 3,000 images each second.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Saenredam's shapes
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Seventeenth-century artist Pieter Saenredam specialized in painting churches and transformed church architecture with his geometric patterns which emphasised the geometric beauty of divine architecture. Saenredam's interior of the Great Church of Haarlem in Holland is one example of his talent for projective geometry.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Spiritual shapes: Ernst Haeckel's "art forms in nature"
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A description of the works of Ernst Haeckel is presented. In particular Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (art forms in nature) published in ten instalments from 1899 to 1904 is reviewed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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