Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble predator, moreso than some… Read the rest “Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix”
This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns the Hard Rock Cafe brand, has … Read the rest “Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942”
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler. According to his Wikipedia article… Read the rest “Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB”
I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011”
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.
From the image description on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT”ChatGPT 4 generated this image based on the following prompt: “Generate
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There are remoras, cow fish, sturgeon … Read the rest “Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .”
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe.
The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine, written in … Read the rest “Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon ”
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral.
Here are a couple of quotes from a recent Florida Today story describing the launch:… Read the rest “Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.”
This is a game theory diagram from the paper, “Limited backward induction: foresight and behavior in sequential games,” though I found it on Wikimedia Commons.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A four stage sequential game with a foresight bound, Marco Mantovani”
From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”.… Read the rest “Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926”
This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) in his book Half Mile Down, which is both… Read the rest “Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934”
Cyamis boopis is one of the cyamidae better known as a whale louse.
This particular species is from Scandinavia, as illustrated in the book An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short… Read the rest “Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.”
This is an illustration from the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo Collection, studying the grave (and buried treasures) of a “Very Important Person” laid to rest in the … Read the rest “Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams”
That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a mirror and”… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.”
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