Science Art: Germinating squash seed, 1908
A new beginning, from Elements of Philippine Agriculture on archive.org (though I found it on Flickr Commons).
Science Art
Science Art: Close-up view of a rock cutter in the Everglades Drainage District, c. 1920
Click to embiggen This is a machine for cutting through rock in a swamp. Or really, in a very broad, very shallow river – which […]
Science Art: Hyneria, by ABelov2014
Click to embiggen A scene from the Devonian period, before dinosaurs ever emerged to rumble the earth. This lobe-finned fish measured between 8 and 15 […]
Science Art: Astro-2 Observavory in STS-67 Payload Bay, 1995
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission. The mission summary, from archive.org, is: The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March […]
Science Art: Chasse à courre en dirigeable, by Albert Guillaume.
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon inspired by “the experiences of Santos-Dumont,” the famed Brazilian-born aviator who maybe might have kind of sort of […]
Science Art: Escut del Marquès d’Oró (Escutcheon of the Marquis d’Oró)
Click to embiggen The Marquis d’Oró (without that accent mark, he’d be the Marquis of Gold) has a coat of arms with a diagram of […]
Science Art: Single-Acting Force Pump with Ball Valves, 1903.
Among all the diagrams of force-vectors, there’s this wonderful illustration of a well-made machine in A Text-Book of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, on archive.org. […]
Science Art: Roseate Spoonbill, study for Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, by Abbot Handerson Thayer
Click to embiggen As its Smithsonian Museum page explains, this painting is from a book that hoped to prove a slightly odd hypothesis: that even […]
Science Art: Last Test Article for NASA’s SLS Rocket Departs Michoud Assembly Facility, 2019 – by NASA/Jude Guidry.
Click to embiggen A big part of a big rocket, loading onto a big barge in a big facility in Louisiana. As the NASA Michoud […]
Science Art: Gold plaques (items 9-14 in catalogue), by Ian Richardson, The British Museum, 2012
Click to embiggen Treasure! Literally! A hoard of Roman gold and silver, including jewelry, figurines, and a lot of these votive “leaf” plaques. A votive […]
Science Art: Dynamometer, 3 Feb 1865
Click to embiggen A dynamometer, illustrated by (or for) the United States Sanitary Commission in 1865. A dynamometer measures power output. For an engine, it […]
Science Art: Booby Gannet, by John James Audubon
Click to embiggen A quizzical and curious sea bird, from Birds of America, presented by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020
Click to embiggen It’s my mother’s birthday today. Here, nine glorious suns for a Leo. They were photographed by the European Space Agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet […]
Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.
Click to embiggen The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little […]