When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was “redrawn from Schwarz-Karsten, modified from original… Read the rest “Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942”
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and are getting less so. (A Florida… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher”
A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that a cell uses to do something.
Since this illustration … Read the rest “Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018”
Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move inside a protein molecule.
Here’s the description… Read the rest “Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase”
This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3).
The official credit is: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko,… Read the rest “Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025”
This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian Muñoz. I found it in the David Rumsey Map Collection, the “Celestial”… Read the rest “Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606”
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.”
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