SONG: Is There A Light?
SONG: “Is There A Light?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World […]
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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: Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, by Andrew Z. Colvin
Click to embiggen. Hi, neighbors. Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything. Everything.
Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration. (Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.) If there’s something […]
Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Click to embiggen I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character […]
Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889
A caisson is a machine for working under water. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia. Rise, German engineers. Rise. Dive, German engineers. Dive. Image found […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen Is it cute? It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
A black-and-white birth sequence. From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”, by H. Bastian in […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, […]
Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian. Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) […]
Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922
This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better […]
Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along […]
Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest. I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems […]
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)”
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mars rover Curiosity zaps ‘Coronation’ rock […]
Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection […]
Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*. This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in […]