Science Art

Scientific illustration by Rick Guidice of a space colony, complete with cylindrical walls and people hanging out in the greenery growing inside.

Science Art: Space Colony Interior by Rick Guidice, c. 1975.

13 November 2022 grant 0

This is part of a presentation created by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill – one of three “summer studies” he carried out in the 1970s on […]

Scientific illustration by Olof Sörling of a object that might be a ritual drum, or a throne, or might be something else. It looks a little like an inverted breadbasket, with many circular cutouts and circled-crosses as ornamentation.

Science Art: Balkåkra Ritual Object, Olof Sörling, 1917.

6 November 2022 grant 0

This is a drum. Or a gong. Or maybe a throne. Or a model of the universe with little solar disks around the edge. It […]

Scientific Illustration of the Lunar Lander Surveyor from the National Air and Space Museum

Science Art: Lunar Lander, Surveyor

30 October 2022 grant 0

This is one of the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. We sent machines there before we sent people. From the Smithsonian Open […]

Scientific illustration of smut growing on seeds and tiny flowers, seen very close up

Science Art: Flower of Polygonum persicarium distorted by Utricle smut and following figures, by J.E. Sowerby, 1872.

24 October 2022 grant 0

This is a bunch of smut. Mostly, it’s smut in the genus Ustilago growing on plants in the same genus as knotweed and buckwheat. The […]

Scientific illustration in the form of street art advertising "Squid Facts: Text 'Squid' to 1-833-SCi-TEXT"

Science Art: “Get Squid Facts” street art, Philadelphia, 2022.

16 October 2022 grant 0

A friend of mine clued me into this project. It really works and I encourage you to try it. Did you know cephalopods have been […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a 1900s comic strip parodying early electrical experiments. Cartoon shows a man on a treadmill being encouraged to lose weight while unknowingly powering up the inventor's bank of batteries.

Science Art: Reducing Apparatus, in “Phoney Patent Offizz,” The Electrical Experimenter, April 1917.

9 October 2022 grant 0

This is nerd humor from the dawn of the electric age. The “Phoney Patent Offizz” was apparently a regular column in Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical […]

Scientific illustration of a baboon with a tail "exactly like a pig's."

Science Art: Pigtailed Baboon, 1811.

2 October 2022 grant 0

According to the accompanying text, this illustration depicts a baboon species “easily distinguished by its tail, which is four inches long, slender, and exactly like […]

Scientific illustration of different kinds of flames produced by a Bunsen burner

Science Art: Bunsen burner flame types, by Arthur Jan Fijałkowski (WarX).

26 September 2022 grant 0

The flame from a Bunsen burner (a standard piece of chemistry equipment; you might have used one in high school) can change color and height […]

Scientific illustration of the Earth in the form of a photograph of New Zealand by the International Space Station's Samantha Cristoforetti.

Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.

18 September 2022 grant 0

Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a vintage ad for PVP, a chemical put into cosmetics.

Science Art: Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP): GAF’s Gift to Women, 1967.

11 September 2022 grant 0

This is an ad for a chemical that seemed like a miracle in the 60s (at least to this marketing department), but is one of […]

Scientific illustration of fossilized crocodile skulls (Steneosaurus species) from England's Great Oolite deposit.

Science Art: Anglosuchus, by James Erxleben, c. 1877.

4 September 2022 grant 0

These are the skulls of two English crocodiles. They were English before the first Anglo-Saxons arrived on that island’s shores. Of course, they also went […]

Scientific illustration of wheels, bins, sifters, and other engineering parts from https://archive.org/details/gri_33125001402706/page/n229/mode/1up, the Engineer's Sketchbook. p219.

Science Art: Page 219 from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details…, 1890

28 August 2022 grant 0

This is a page of assorted parts – gizmos, “contrivances,” what-have-yous – for doing things in machines. It’s from a catalog of such bits and […]

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