Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )
Click to embiggen This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like […]
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Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem
From 1915 to 1922, this was the symbol of electric luxury – or at least a hybrid-electric luxury car. The Owen Magnetic label was a […]
Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.
Click to embiggen This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body […]
Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.
Click to embiggen It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a […]
Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887
Click to embiggen From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a […]
Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013
As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and […]
Science Art: Ingenuity Mars helicopter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Next week, on February 18, this little chopper will touch down on Mars with the Perseverance rover. Then, a little while later, it’ll take off […]
Science Art: Tackles, 1905.
Click to embiggen Pulleys and rope, arranged to make lifting heavy weights easier. I’ve been messing around with boats lately, lowering a 30-foot mast with […]
Science Art: Hunting with a Sound Camera, by William Vogt, 1933.
Click to embiggen Listen! This was how people catalogued birdsongs in the 1930s, with a giant acoustic dish. And then they transferred them to phonograph […]
Science Art: Coronavirus spike protein structure, by David Veesler, University of Washington,2016
Click to embiggen This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of […]
Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Science Art: Gryllus: Gryllus formosus, Gryllus hirtipes, Gryllus trifasciatus.
Handsome field crickets. That’s not a name for them, just me admiring them. Gryllus is a genus of field crickets. Once, they were all put […]
Science Art: Perihelion Parts of Orbits of the August and November Meteor-showers
Click to embiggen Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org. […]
Science Art: Lamprometra protectus, ventral view of a specimen with 23 arms from Stat. 125., 1918
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these […]