Radiolarian Ornament (Sepalospyris)
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This ornament depicts a microscopic radiolarian (called Sepalospyris pagoda by Haeckel) is fit for your wunderkammer, your cabinet of curiosities. This is one of selection of specimens from Natural History are hand-printed onto fabric, hand-sewn on a backing fabric and suspended from a ribbon. Each specimen is a relief print, carved in linoleum. Celebrate your love of science this holiday season!Radiolarians (or radiolaria) are a type of tiny creature -amoeboid protozoa - which produce mineral skeletons. They occur as zooplankton throughout the oceans and their tiny skeletal remains can be used as diagnostic fossils to date submarine sediments.
My radiolarian ornaments were inspired by the scientific illustrations of famed German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834 to 1919). His book "Kunstformen der Natur" (Artforms in Nature) helped foster the Victorian mania for cabinets of curiosity and palour microsopy. This is a specimen he identified as Sepalospyris pagoda, but the modern scientific name is Polycystina.
The ornament is about 9 cm or 3.5 inches in size.
The Mad Scientists of Etsy challenge for October is to re-imagine the ornament in a scientific light. This wunderkammer of ornaments is my answer.
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Je suis inspirée par la beauté des dessins de la biologiste allemande du 19ième siècle, Ernst Haeckel.
Les radiolaires (ou Radiolaria) font partie du zooplancton ou plancton animal.
Ces animaux dont la taille est comprise entre 1 mm et 1 cm sont des protistes, c’est-à-dire formés d'une seule cellule. Plus précisément il s'agit de protozoaires qui sont des protistes à affinités animales. Cette radiolaire était identifier comme Sepalospyris pagoda par Haeckel, mais aujourd'hui on l'appelle Polycystina.
C'est un ornement scientific pour votre arbre de Noël. C'est un gravure sur tissue, fait à la main. Il est a peu près 9 cm (3.5 pouces) en tailleur.
Added on Oct 31, 2009
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Listed on Oct 31, 2009
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$6.00 USD
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