Science Art | The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

Scientific illustration of 1960s circuitry, a cathode-ray tube as it plots a graph.

Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.

15 June 2026 grant 0

This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used for a high-speed printer/plotter. It’s enlarged […]

Scientific illustration of a sunrise seen from space, snapped by the astronauts aboard the International Space station orbiting over Vietnam.

Science Art: Sunrise – Philippine Sea, 2017

8 June 2026 grant 0

This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space […]

Scientific illustration of the machinery used in the Parisian sewers, a cart with gears and a light.

Science Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.

1 June 2026 grant 0

There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. Belgrand.)”. This is engineering from the third quarter […]

Scientific illustration of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a bearded man in small, oval glasses, apparently wearing pajamas and a capacious overcoat as he sketches rocket bodies, while over his shoulder, a strange white barbell-shaped craft navigates through the inky blackness of space.

Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.

25 May 2026 grant 0

I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full […]

Scientific illustration of fish guts, the innards of a whitefish in black and white ink. It's very ... organic.

Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.

18 May 2026 grant 0

This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.” But this isn’t the eye. It’s the alimentary canal, […]

Scientific illustration of a mathematical shape, a circular paraboloid, looking a little like a stained-glass arch or a checkerboard dome standing by a reflecting pool.

Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton

11 May 2026 grant 0

This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a […]

Scientific illustration of 19th century apparatus, gears and wheels and tubes, for determining altitude and azimuth. It's all very complicated.

Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876

4 May 2026 grant 0

This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can […]

Scientific illustration of solar flares with the Earth to scale, showing how big they are compared to our planet. Orange fronds reaching across a pale purple void toward a small, dark ball.

Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.

27 April 2026 grant 0

This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died […]

Scientific illustration of the North Pole of Mars, as photographed by a Chinese space probe, looking like a nautilus shell.

Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck

20 April 2026 grant 0

Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]

Scientific illustration of a moon mission's path from Earth to the moon and back again.

Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX

13 April 2026 grant 0

This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]

Scientific illustration of microbes in a simplified style, almost like a clothing pattern from the 1970s.

Science Art: Chromista

6 April 2026 grant 0

An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable, […]

Scientific illustration of a spider's face as seen under a microscope, rows of eyes symmetrically arrayed over large mandibles.

Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884

30 March 2026 grant 0

A spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip. This is illustrating a sort of study, or perhaps prose […]

A dark spacecraft firing four small, glowing engines nears a round, rocky planet or planetoid. Perhaps it is Earth. The sun is small in the distance.

Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023

23 March 2026 grant 0

This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with […]

Scientific illustration of a stand-pipe, looking like a church steeple against a cloudy sky, a tower rising up to help regulate water flow in a black and white engraving.

Science Art: Stand-Pipe, Boston, 1882

16 March 2026 grant 0

A hydrological edifice. As explained in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical construction of water works, […]

Scientific illustration of a heart with several kinds of aneurysms in the vessels surrounding the muscle.

Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.

9 March 2026 grant 0

The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]