Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what […]
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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: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space. You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or […]
Science Art: Plate VI, from Monograph on the Aye-aye, by Richard Owen, 1863
In 1863, naturalist Richard Owen published 72 pages of joy. Is it related to the lemur? Aye. Does it climb through the jungle at night? […]
Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.
Click to embiggen This may be an important historical record of the early days of aeronautics, or it may be a vivid fantasy by a […]
SONG: “So Heavy”
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” […]
Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.
Click to embiggen I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an […]
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]
SONG: Spirit of the Words
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, […]
Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
Science Art: Finite Element Mesh for a Klein Surface, by Cristian Barbarosie, 2009.
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
SONG: “In the Light”
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January […]
Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886
A hothouse flower, far from home. Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured […]