Science Art: Plant Cell Structure, by Russell Kightley
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization. I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
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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: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.
I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing […]
SONG: “Mesopotamia” (a penitential B52s cover)
SONG: “Mesopotamia” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for a […]
Science Art: Front Cover, Chemistry of Photography by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
An artisan, working with technology. A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
SONG: “Starts Beating”
SONG: “Starts Beating” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker by injecting a modified virus […]
Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see. This image, of […]
Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap
Click to embiggen Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps […]
Science Art: Seventeenth Century Sites Examined by Archaeologists, from The Archaeology of Boston pamphlet,
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
SONG: Complicated Man
SONG: “Complicated Man.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 […]
Science Art: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878
Click to embiggen I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly […]
Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style. Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the […]
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move. [via]
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm. These are his aardvarks. Earth-pigs. After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally, […]
SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. This […]
Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared. found on archive.org (pdf).