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Scientific illustration diagramming a particular kind of game theory based on decision-making ... resuling in a graph that looks like a series of gothic arches.

Science Art: A four stage sequential game with a foresight bound, Marco Mantovani

28 July 2025 grant 0

This is a game theory diagram from the paper, “Limited backward induction: foresight and behavior in sequential games,” though I found it on Wikimedia Commons. […]

Scientific illustration of the Aethereal Sylph hummingbird, brilliant reds and greens and long, ornamental tails - now known as the violet-tailed sylph.

Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926

20 July 2025 grant 0

From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”. The blue… […]

Scientific illustration of a medieval submarine, the "Rotterdam Ship," designed to ram battleships underwater in the Age of Sail.

Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934

14 July 2025 grant 0

This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) […]

Scientific illustration of a whale louse, or whale lice, in a symmetrical collage of spiny legs and many details of heads, growth stages, body parts.

Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.

7 July 2025 grant 0

Cyamis boopis is one of the cyamidae better known as a whale louse. This particular species is from Scandinavia, as illustrated in the book An […]

Scientific illustration of an Anglo-Saxon burial, a ship burial from before the age of the Vikings, shadowy figures of warriors, kinsmen, or household servants lining up alongside a wooden ship, preparing to cover it with earth.The lotd's body is inside it.

Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams

29 June 2025 grant 0

This is an illustration from the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo Collection, studying the grave (and buried treasures) of a “Very Important Person” laid to rest […]

Scientific illustration of Surveyor-1, a nearly abstract collection of angles, legs, boxes, and support struts done in monochrome black and white, a photograph rendered as a ghostly stencil of a spacecraft.

Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.

23 June 2025 grant 0

That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a […]

Scientific illustration of Venus transiting in front of the Sun, as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observetory satellite, a flaming metallic orb girdled by a series of perfectly circular silhouettes making a diagonal line from the upper left to the middle right of the image.

Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.

9 June 2025 grant 0

This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of pictures […]

Scientific illustration of a white plume moth, long legs, very white against a black background.

Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens

2 June 2025 grant 0

This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of 2011. The […]

Scientific illustration of machines for moving water. Ducts, pumps, pistons, turbines.

Science Art: Turbines and Pumps, Manchester, 1882.

26 May 2025 grant 0

This is a waterwork as the Industrial Revolution hit full swing. It’s the final image in a book I’ve used here before, A practical treatise […]

Scientific illustration of a sawfly feeding on a plum, purplish-black insect glittering darkly over a white larva on a hard, green fruit.

Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920.

19 May 2025 grant 0

“A kind of sawfly living on plum trees,” according to the Wikimedia Commons gallery of images from Nordisk familjebok. They’re considered a pest — the […]

Scientific illustration of pacemakers, defibrillators, monitors, loop recorders, and other electronic devices inserted into the anatomically correct hearts.

Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic

12 May 2025 grant 0

This is a poster snapped in my cardiologist’s (actually, electrophysiologist’s) office. These are all machines that are put into your heart to track its beating […]

Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.

5 May 2025 grant 0

On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in […]

Scientific illustration of the surface of the Earth; a colorful satellite picture of stark-white Iceland in the blue-green North Atlantic.

Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024

28 April 2025 grant 0

A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight […]

scientific illustration of the propeller, gears, and supporting rod of a device meant to measure the flow of water (or any other fluid).

Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882

21 April 2025 grant 0

Oh, hydrology. This is a device to measure the speed of water flow, as described in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a board on which rows of mathematical knots are mounted, complex geometries in loops of cord.

Science Art: Mathematical Knot Table 01, by Rodrigo Argenton

13 April 2025 grant 0

These are knots. Not knots used to tie down boats or headstrong horses, but knots used to explore geometries of space. The display was made […]