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 *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”
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 leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876”
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 in 1922.
There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.”
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is the China National Space Administration – this… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck”
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 decades old now. I think we’re getting… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX”
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,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chromista”
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 poem, about this spider species.… Read the rest “Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884”
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 samples from an asteroid.
The description, from… Read the rest “Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023”
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 coronary from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.”
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book calls it.
The book in question… Read the rest “Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905”
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons… Read the rest “Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.”
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed in Tendaguru, Tanzania.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.”
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display.
The edition is pretty light on scientific illustrations and pretty heavy on flowcharts… Read the rest “Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974”
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it to space piloted by remote control computers with a crew… Read the rest “Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012”
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