Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, […]
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Science Art: Randel’s Improved Combination Press, 1860
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 […]
Science Art: Section of a Comet’s Path, 1933
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 […]
Science Art: Magdalenian engraving of bison
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 […]
Science Art: Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Lifts Off!, by NASA/Joel Kowsky, 7 Dec 2021
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 […]
Science Art: Comet observations from Libra astronomica, y philosophica by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, 1690.
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 […]
Science Art: Auiomeris io, Dryocampa rubicunda by Edna Libby Beutenmüller, 1918.
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 […]
Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Patch, by Alexandra Lindgren
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 […]
Science Art: Heart of the Turbine, by Lewis W. Hine, 1930.
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 […]
Science Art: A Dragon Approaches, ESA/NASA, 2021
This is a view of the Dragon spaceship Endurance from an angle most of us never get to see – above the nose cone, which […]
Science Art: Papierformate 01 (fcm), by Frank C. Müller
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 […]
Science Art: Bosom Pad (U.S. patent 404881), 1888.
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 […]
Science Art: Skull of Dolichorhinus cornutus (Osborn),
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 […]
Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.
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 […]
Science Art: Magpie on the Gallows, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568
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 […]