Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org. This particular […]
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Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
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Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio […]
SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used […]
Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]
Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story […]
Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851
This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab […]
Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. […]
SONG: Remember Your Hands
SONG: “Remember Your Hands”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News 31 Jan 2022, “A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation,” as used […]
Science Art: United Aircraft Display Transmssion Generator ad, 1964.
An ad from the first issue of the Journal of the Society for Informational Display. This machine could receive up to 26 teletype messages of […]
Science Art: La Mouche des cerises (Rhagoletis cerasi), d’après une ancienne encyclopédie suédoise, 1920
This is a European cherry fruit fly, one of those creatures whose names say exactly what they are: a fruit fly that lives on cherries […]
Science Art: Water-voles, 1911.
This is a pair of water-voles looking ready for a Wind in the Willows-style adventure, only without any waistcoats or trousers. They’re featured in a […]
Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, […]
SONG: In Pompeii
SONG: “In Pompeii”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American 6 Dec 2021, “Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot,” as used in the post ‘A robot […]
Science Art: Randel’s Improved Combination Press, 1860
From Scientific American, December 1, 1860, an issue that also has a patent by Abraham Lincoln for lifting riverboats over obstacles, and a note on […]
Science Art: Section of a Comet’s Path, 1933
This illustration, from Natural History Magazine, shows the way the comet of 1843 (or Comet 1843, if you prefer) reached its closest point to the […]