This bat is probably misnamed, since its wings are hands and it has a digit in those wings it would recognize as a thumb, just a very small one that is “enclosed in the edge of the wing membrane,”… Read the rest “Science Art: Thumbless Bat, 1857”
This image, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows a fusion reaction contained by a force field. The magnetic fields force the plasma – the stuff being fused – into a … Read the rest “Science Art: ITER 3D plasma equilibrium with ripple contours (4071616631)”
I’ve posted illustrations from this remarkable book of geometric studies before. This one looks, to this old gamer’s eyes, like 1D4+1D20+1. (For non-gamers: It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate VI from Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.”
Today, Folklore Twitter is celebrating #SwampSunday, so I thought I’d slip this stately scientific illustration into my queue. This is what’s going on underneath that dark,… Read the rest “Science Art: Cypress root system exposed 4 feet deep by wave action…, 1915.”
A soft and beautiful drawing of distant, unimaginable destruction. Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche was a naturalist in Hereroland (now Namibia) when he painted this watercolor in late… Read the rest “Science Art: Circular Twilight Halo at Sunrise (Kreisförmiger Dämmerungsschein Bei Sonnenaufgang) by Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche, 1884”
This is a Wechselstrommaschine, an alternator. The wheel goes around, and the spokes hit contacts – one set makes the electricity go in one direction and the other goes in the opposite… Read the rest “Science Art: Alternator by Ganz & Co, 1905”
The giant armadillo of Pleistocene-era Arizona, from David D. Gillette’s Smithsonian publication, Glyptodonts of North America, found on archive.org.
Based on their teeth and… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic illustration of skeleton of Glyptotherium arizonae (modified for Glyptotherium after Burrmeister and Hoffstetter), 1981.”
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Wikimedia Commons user LadyofHats made this image of motherhood. And fatherhood, I suppose. Technically, this fertilization is happening in a sea urchin, … Read the rest “Science Art: Acrosome Reaction Diagram”
That’s the funniest lookin’ carrot I’ve ever seen. A real cuckoo-maria. In fact, that’s its name now – Cucumaria frondosa is the scientific name, and … Read the rest “Science Art: Holothuria Pentactes, Lin. – die Rippenblasse, from from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom).”
This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog.
“Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part of the spinal column. The main … Read the rest “Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906”
This looks like a heraldic emblem to me, but it’s not. It’s also not merely an abstract diagram of circular forces, though that’s a little closer. It’s a schematic… Read the rest “Science Art: Scheme of quadrocopter impellent (X and H configuration), by Ulrich Heither”
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This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You can see the pink semicircle of the crater, and… Read the rest “Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.”
This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like a simple drawing of a heart, a Valentines heart, with wings.… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )”
From 1915 to 1922, this was the symbol of electric luxury – or at least a hybrid-electric luxury car. The Owen Magnetic label was a celebrated icon of the finer things, and the electric… Read the rest “Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem”
This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body and Health: Grade Six by … Read the rest “Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.”
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