This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when C. Spence Bate wrote about it in “On a new genus and several… Read the rest “Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.”
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the scene depicted in fields of shadow… Read the rest “Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890”
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.”Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 année-lumière de nous.
Elle a été prise par le JWST.
Ce niveau
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, they are labeled… Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria tubulosa (Sjogurka stor ugglan, a sea cucumber) from Nordisk Familjebok, 1919.”
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone replacement therapy… Read the rest “Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.”
Basking sharks are really big. As fish go, only whale sharks get bigger, and only then sometimes. And both of them eat plankton, not sailors. They’ve got nothing to prove.
This photo… Read the rest “Science Art: Cetorhinus maximus, by Greg Skomal”
This is an illustration of a defunct theory. The idea being put forward explains sunspots as the impacts of meteors, which come from the rings of Saturn but are knocked out at regular intervals… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 61, A Voyage in Space, “Fragments from the Rings Falling into the Sun,” 1915.”
Solar systems have a “goldilocks zone” where planets capable of sustaining life forms similar to ours can form. Well, galaxies might also have a goldilocks zone where habitable… Read the rest “Science Art: The galactic habitable zone of the Milky Way, as predicted by Lineweaver et al (2004), NASA/Caltech 2013.”
This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text from 1956 done by the US Air… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.”
A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, an artist employed… Read the rest “Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.”
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own hula hoop, its own dervish robe.
As the European Space Agency… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).”
The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” and “The Fallacy… Read the rest “Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.”
This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) can see. Although actually, this graphic is not merely… Read the rest “Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.”
This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery on Flickr… Read the rest “Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.”
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