This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThis is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreAn illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, whic…
Read moreA spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip.
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Basking sharks are really big. As fish go, only whale sharks get bigger, and only then sometimes. And both of them eat plankton, not sailors. They’ve got nothing to prove.
This photo… Read the rest “Science Art: Cetorhinus maximus, by Greg Skomal”
This is an illustration of a defunct theory. The idea being put forward explains sunspots as the impacts of meteors, which come from the rings of Saturn but are knocked out at regular intervals… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 61, A Voyage in Space, “Fragments from the Rings Falling into the Sun,” 1915.”
Solar systems have a “goldilocks zone” where planets capable of sustaining life forms similar to ours can form. Well, galaxies might also have a goldilocks zone where habitable… Read the rest “Science Art: The galactic habitable zone of the Milky Way, as predicted by Lineweaver et al (2004), NASA/Caltech 2013.”
This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text from 1956 done by the US Air… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.”
SONG: “A Pseudo-Satellite”.
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SOURCE: CNN 5 May 2022, “This solar-powered plane could stay in the air for months,” as used in the post Solar plane… Read the rest “SONG: A Pseudo-Satellite”
A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, an artist employed… Read the rest “Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.”
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own hula hoop, its own dervish robe.
As the European Space Agency… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).”
The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” and “The Fallacy… Read the rest “Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.”
This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) can see. Although actually, this graphic is not merely… Read the rest “Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.”
This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery on Flickr… Read the rest “Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.”
This is… well, let me just quote the preface:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.”This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it is manufactured, and how it works.
These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and were recorded … Read the rest “Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879”
This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris Company. Why a blast engine? To make Bessemer steel.… Read the rest “Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.”
SONG: “Like Lava Made of Water”.
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SOURCE: Science 17 Apr 2022, “Icy Volcanos on Pluto Could Be Sign of Underground Ocean,” as used in the post Pluto… Read the rest “SONG: Like Lava Made of Water”
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