Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here. I can only […]
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Science 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 …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
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Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868
Fifty-two breeds of chickens! This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: […]
Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895
This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one […]
SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)
SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s […]
Science Art: NIH- NCI cancer research
An image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Images from the History of Medicine” collection. […]
Science Art: Akrobati, Lokální těžiště a hmotnosti, 2016
Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek. The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center of gravity and […]
Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.
From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org. This is a chart of the human […]
Science Art: Noordung’s Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929
Here’s a space station from before the first rocket left Earth’s atmosphere. The description from DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) Hub, where I found […]
Science Art: Plate LXXXI from A natural history of British moths, 1872.
These are English moths, of the geni Rhodophaea, Oncocera, Aphomia, Galleria, Melliphora, Halias and Sarrothripa. Each species in this book has a description like: The […]
Science Art: New Patent Hot Air Motors…, 1894
This is an ad from the back cover of Science Gossip magazine, a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog. These “hot-air motors” were made by […]
Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942
When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was […]
Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and […]
Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018
A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that […]
SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)
SONG: “What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “People with some cancers live longer after a […]
Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase
Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move […]