30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany.
It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the weather.
The artist, Karl Oskar Blase, has a bit more in the way of … Read the rest “Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.”
I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new – a just-opened… Read the rest “Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905”
This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments in the… Read the rest “Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared”
This is an image made by combining visible light (from the Hubble and ESO orbiting telescopes) and invisible infrared and X-ray imagery (from the Webb, Chandra, and XMM-Newton telescopes).… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023”
This is a plant bug. That’s the technical term – it’s part of that group of insects called “true bugs,” the family Miridae; plant bugs are the subfamily … Read the rest “Science Art: Habitus images of Chimairacoris lakshmiae, 2015.”
This is an illustration of a public waterwork taken from the pages of A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical… Read the rest “Science Art: Intercepting Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by R.S. Bross, 1882.”
These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in The birds of America : from … Read the rest “Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841”
Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river near Shanghai.
This image came from Pol Korrigan, but I … Read the rest “Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.”
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements,… Read the rest “Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.”
This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better.
What we’re seeing here, according… Read the rest “Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.”
This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea.
Or a picture from back in the day when the U.S. was still in World War II, and The University of Kansas… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.”
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from the French Bibliotheque Nationale… Read the rest “Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.”
This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in their natural habitats.
This is a male wood… Read the rest “Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.”
This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and its thickness in western … Read the rest “Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.”
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida.
As described in NASA’s image… Read the rest “Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023”
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