Science Art

Scientific Illustration of a fusion reaction contained in a magnetic field.

Science Art: ITER 3D plasma equilibrium with ripple contours (4071616631)

20 June 2021 grant 0

This image, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows a fusion reaction contained by a force field. The magnetic fields force the plasma – the […]

Scientific illustration of three-dimentsional solids, illustrating geometric ideas in an Early Modern woodcut.

Science Art: Plate VI from Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.

13 June 2021 grant 0

I’ve posted illustrations from this remarkable book of geometric studies before. This one looks, to this old gamer’s eyes, like 1D4+1D20+1. (For non-gamers: It’s the […]

Scientific illustration of cypress roots and cypress knees in a southern swamp

Science Art: Cypress root system exposed 4 feet deep by wave action…, 1915.

6 June 2021 grant 0

Today, Folklore Twitter is celebrating #SwampSunday, so I thought I’d slip this stately scientific illustration into my queue. This is what’s going on underneath that […]

Scientific illustration of a vivid sunrise caused by the explosive eruption of Krakatoa.

Science Art: Circular Twilight Halo at Sunrise (Kreisförmiger Dämmerungsschein Bei Sonnenaufgang) by Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche, 1884

30 May 2021 grant 0

A soft and beautiful drawing of distant, unimaginable destruction. Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche was a naturalist in Hereroland (now Namibia) when he painted this watercolor in […]

Science Art: Alternator by Ganz & Co, 1905

23 May 2021 grant 0

This is a Wechselstrommaschine, an alternator. The wheel goes around, and the spokes hit contacts – one set makes the electricity go in one direction […]

Scientific illustration of a prehistoric armadillo, the giant armored glyptodont.

Science Art: Schematic illustration of skeleton of Glyptotherium arizonae (modified for Glyptotherium after Burrmeister and Hoffstetter), 1981.

16 May 2021 grant 0

The giant armadillo of Pleistocene-era Arizona, from David D. Gillette’s Smithsonian publication, Glyptodonts of North America, found on archive.org. Based on their teeth and joints, […]

A scientific illustration of sperm entering egg using acrosome to get through the jelly coat and past the plasma membrane

Science Art: Acrosome Reaction Diagram

9 May 2021 grant 0

Happy Mother’s Day! Wikimedia Commons user LadyofHats made this image of motherhood. And fatherhood, I suppose. Technically, this fertilization is happening in a sea urchin, […]

Scientific illustration of Holothuria pentactes, a sea cucumber better known as Cucumaria frondosa, which is a funnier name the more you say it.

Science Art: Holothuria Pentactes, Lin. – die Rippenblasse, from from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom).

2 May 2021 grant 0

That’s the funniest lookin’ carrot I’ve ever seen. A real cuckoo-maria. In fact, that’s its name now – Cucumaria frondosa is the scientific name, and […]

Scientific illustration of the nervous system of a new-born dog.

Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906

25 April 2021 grant 0

This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog. “Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part […]

Scientific illustration of a quadrocopter drone's propeller directions.

Science Art: Scheme of quadrocopter impellent (X and H configuration), by Ulrich Heither

18 April 2021 grant 0

This looks like a heraldic emblem to me, but it’s not. It’s also not merely an abstract diagram of circular forces, though that’s a little […]

Scientific illustration of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum on Mars, in the form of a detailed topographical map.

Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.

11 April 2021 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You […]

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