Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
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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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SONG: “This Stupid War”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via […]
Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912
Click to embiggen In 1912, aeronautics was a sport. And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their […]
Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.
Click to embiggen This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909. Eskimos and tapirs. […]
Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional […]
SONG: “Inside the Box”
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” […]
Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt
Click to embiggen This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like […]
Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard
Click to embiggen Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood. Very, very enlarged blood. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: FAGOCITOSI BY RAFF by Raffmara.
Look, this isn’t funny, OK? This isn’t funny at all. If this wasn’t going on inside your body all the time, you would be SO […]
SONG: “Back into flow”
SONG: “Back into flow.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating ‘thinking cap’”, […]
Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.
Click to embiggen This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes […]
Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back […]
Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]