Please choose between this galleries:
Gallery 1 - The Aesthetics of Slides
Gallery 2 - Slides in Context
Slides in Context- Karl Heider and the Hydrous piceus
The Zoologist Karl Heider (1856 - 1935) spend many years literally in the company of microscopes and microscope slides. He used them not only in his job as assistant and professor for zoology in Berlin and Innsbruck, but also in his leisure time when researching the development of the water beetle, hydrous piceus. In his unpublished memoirs he gives a vivid picture of himself carrying his microscope through Austria and preparing series of slides "on tour". He made drawings of the slides which later were used as master for wax models.
This gallery gives an impression of scientific objects in context with slides in the case of Heider.
Acknowledgements
Pictures of Gallery 1: Courtesy of the Natural History Museum, Berlin - Dr. Birger Neuhaus
Pictures of Gallery 2: Courtesy of Humboldt University Berlin, Zoological Institute - Prof. Gerhard Scholtz