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Scientific illustration of plant life under the microscope

Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011

12 June 2022 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific illustration of a star spinning

Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).

6 June 2022 grant 0

This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own […]

Scientific illustration of an auk, as the title page for the American Ornithologists' Union journal The Auk, from the early 20th century

Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.

29 May 2022 grant 0

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,” […]

Scientific illustration of a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment. It's a resolution tester.

Science Art: Power spectrum of Siemens star with 1024 line pairs per image height, by Bautsch, 2012.

22 May 2022 grant 0

This is a Siemens star, a pattern used to calibrate optical equipment – to see how well the lens (or raster, or driver, or whatever) […]

Scientific illustration of a ""Sinuous neck flask employed by M. Pasteur in his experiments against spontaneous generation"; in other words, antique laboratory glassware.

Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.

16 May 2022 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific illustration of transistors, as a piece of modern art from a 1972 Radio Shack instructional book.

Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.

8 May 2022 grant 0

This is… well, let me just quote the preface: This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it […]

Scientific Illustration of beetles by Edw. A. Smith, whoever he was. The beetles are colorful, reddish orange, and have long antennae.

Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879

1 May 2022 grant 0

These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and […]

scientific illustration of a blast engine, a marvelous machine of the Victorian era.

Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.

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This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris […]

Scientific illustration of an amphibious aircraft from the 1800s.

Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873

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CW: Ends in despair. French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on […]

Scientific illustration of irisosaurus, a dinosaur discovered in 2020.

Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.

10 April 2022 grant 0

Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in […]

Scientific illustration from the 1797 Encyclopedia Britannica of a compound microscope, an 18th century scientific instrument.

Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.

3 April 2022 grant 0

This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org. This particular […]

Scientific illustration of objects outside our galaxy sending radio waves into our galaxy.

Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020

27 March 2022 grant 0

This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio […]

A scientific illustration of many perspectives on cave millipedes, if you ever needto imagine some creepy cave creatures that aren't monsters.

Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.

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This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]

scientific illustration of farming yields in russia, germany, poland, and the us

Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.

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In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story […]

Scientific Illustration of an Ojibwe music board, with colorful human and animal figures, as illustrated by by James Ackerman after a watercolor by Seth Eastman

Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851

6 March 2022 grant 0

This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab […]