Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)
Click to embiggen This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals […]
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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 …
Read moreScience Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
Science Art: Submarine Reactor, by Webber, 2007.
How the submarine goes. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: STS 110 Insignia, NASA
This was the insignia of the astronauts who built the ISS. Or a big part of it, anyway. STS 110 was the name of the […]
SONG: “Forget” by grant.
SONG: “Forget.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice“, Science Daily, 9 October 2014, as used in […]
Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s […]
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
Science Art: A space-ship might look like this, John W. Wood, 1968.
Click to embiggen An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book […]
Science Art: Fig. 2 from “Drawings, views and engine of the Levasseur transatlantic plane” in NACA Aircraft Circular #50, Levasseur 8 Transatlantic Airplane, 1927.
Click to embiggen This is from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, […]
SONG: Could you tell me your name?
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia’”, BBC News, 9 September 2014, as used […]
Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.
Click to embiggen They itch. They dig in and they itch. These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin […]
Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.
Click to embiggen Take a deep breath. This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t […]
Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of […]
Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.
Click to embiggen vastly. This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources […]
Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s. [via scientificillustration.tumblr.com]