Science Art: Kulturbeigaben des Doppelgrabes von Oberkasssel, 1919.
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads […]
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Science Art: Thanksgiving Day sunspots (SOHO EIT 171 Latest Image: 2020/11/26 13:00), by NASA & ESA
Click to embiggen This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here […]
Science Art: Hefezellen
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no […]
Science Art: At the edge of the blast, Hubble Space Telescope, 2020.
Click to embiggen From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave […]
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: 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 […]