From Scientific American, December 1, 1860, an issue that also has a patent by Abraham Lincoln for lifting riverboats over obstacles, and a note on getting leather from snake skins. It was… Read the rest “Science Art: Randel’s Improved Combination Press, 1860”
This illustration, from Natural History Magazine, shows the way the comet of 1843 (or Comet 1843, if you prefer) reached its closest point to the sun, perihelion, over 10 hours – and… Read the rest “Science Art: Section of a Comet’s Path, 1933”
This is a drawing of a drawing, a likeness of a bison engraved on cave floor at Niaux.
The likeness is part of the Wellcome Collection, but the original is where it’s been for around 14,000… Read the rest “Science Art: Magdalenian engraving of bison”
This is another unusual perspective of a space vessel in flight, though slightly less rare than the top-down image posted here on 28 November. We’re looking up at a United Launch Alliance… Read the rest “Science Art: Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Lifts Off!, by NASA/Joel Kowsky, 7 Dec 2021”
I can’t make out exactly what this is illustrating. My Spanish is barely good enough to tell, in section 309 of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora’s Libra astronomica, y philosophica… Read the rest “Science Art: Comet observations from Libra astronomica, y philosophica by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, 1690.”
Two moths, pictured in The Field Book of Insects by Frank E. Lutz.
A. io, with the big roundels on its wings, is better known as the io moth. D. rubicunda is more commonly called the rosy maple… Read the rest “Science Art: Auiomeris io, Dryocampa rubicunda by Edna Libby Beutenmüller, 1918.”
A dragonfly in space. Luck, and transformation.
This is the symbol for a joint NASA/ESA mission to the ISS, with Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins on the NASA side, and Samantha… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Patch, by Alexandra Lindgren”
A gelatin silver print of a man making a Westinghouse engine. I think this might be an AC generator, but I’m not sure – the notes for Hine’s photo in the Smithsonian galleries… Read the rest “Science Art: Heart of the Turbine, by Lewis W. Hine, 1930.”
This is a view of the Dragon spaceship Endurance from an angle most of us never get to see – above the nose cone, which is open to allow the ship to dock at the International Space Station.… Read the rest “Science Art: A Dragon Approaches, ESA/NASA, 2021”
This is a picture of paper sizes as compared to a human being who will presumably be reading or writing on them. It also has an oddly late-70s/early-80s postmodern art feel, as if it was a photo-collage… Read the rest “Science Art: Papierformate 01 (fcm), by Frank C. Müller”
This geometric shape might look like the kind of floral decoration old-time printers used to separate blocks of text, but no – it’s from a patent. Specifically, the patent … Read the rest “Science Art: Bosom Pad (U.S. patent 404881), 1888.”
This is the skull of a creature with lots of scientific names, but in “Osteology of Dolichorhinus longiceps Douglass, with a review of the species of Dolichorhinus in the order of … Read the rest “Science Art: Skull of Dolichorhinus cornutus (Osborn),”
This diagram came from an article called “Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery” by John C. Ruddock, a Naval Reserve Medical Corps commander, and Charles C. Stehly, a US… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.”
Oh, a beautiful Renaissance landscape by one of those Lowland masters, a naturalistic scene of people meeting merrily on a wooded path between the village center and some large, important… Read the rest “Science Art: Magpie on the Gallows, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568”
This is a chameleon seen inside and out in Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux, by Claude Perrault, an early text on natural history with all kinds of exotic … Read the rest “Science Art: Caméleon, Sébastien Le Clerc, 1676”
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