Science Art: Dynamometer, 3 Feb 1865
Click to embiggen A dynamometer, illustrated by (or for) the United States Sanitary Commission in 1865. A dynamometer measures power output. For an engine, it […]
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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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SONG: All I See
SONG: “All I See” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Scientific American, 28 July 2020, “The Brittle Star That Sees with Its Body”, as used in […]
Science Art: Booby Gannet, by John James Audubon
Click to embiggen A quizzical and curious sea bird, from Birds of America, presented by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
SONG: Campfires
SONG: “Campfires” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun”, as used in the […]
Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020
Click to embiggen It’s my mother’s birthday today. Here, nine glorious suns for a Leo. They were photographed by the European Space Agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet […]
Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.
Click to embiggen The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little […]
Science Art: A section through the cochlea in the line of its axis, 1910.
Click to embiggen An inner ear, dear, from The human body; an account of its structure and activities and the conditions of its healthy working, […]
Science Art: Mechanische Maschinen und Automaten 49, from Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum …, 1420-1430
This is something I first assumed was a very early typewriter or printing press, from the Bavarian State Library’s copy of Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum […]
Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.
Click to embiggen The title here is the best I could render from the middle German “Hier Inn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreinern in eingelegter […]
Science Art: Structures of Brain (Взаиморасположение структур мозга – зрительный анализатор), by Coxer
Click to embiggen A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian. The thinking part. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Florarctus antillensis Van Der Land 1968, from “Tardigrades marins des Bermudes,” 1970
Click to embiggen A water bear from Bermuda, as published in 1970 (a good time to be in Bermuda). Florarctus antillensis was apparently first discovered […]
SONG: Satellite of Love (penitential cover)
SONG: “Satellite of Love” (a penitential cover). (I also made an .ogg version.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover […]
SONG: Cluster Anatomy
SONG: “Cluster Anatomy”. (I made an .ogg version, too.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ […]
Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020
Click to embiggen Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by […]
Science Art: Russ Arasmith Skylab Artwork, date unknown.
Click to embiggen NASA’s Marshall Gallery lists this image as “date unknown,” but since Skylab was crewed from 1973 to 1974, and fell out of […]