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Scientific illustration of Florida lakes, using imagery derived from satellites and aerial photographs

Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.

5 April 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen From the USGS: This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from […]

Scientific illustration of a prehistoric rhinoceros, an elasmotherium

Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.

29 March 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. […]

Scientific Illustration of the stars of the southern hemisphere, as charted by John Flamsteed

Science Art: Hemisphere Austral, XVIII from Atlas Coelestis, by John Flamsteed, 1729.

22 March 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen From 1675 until his death in 1719, John Flamsteed worked at the newly built Greenwich Observatory, charting the stars in the sky. […]

A scientific illustration of a water-cooling device

Science Art: Water-Cooling of the Converter, 1891

15 March 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the […]

Scientific illustration of SARS virus particles, a kind of coronavirus

Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).

8 March 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the […]

Scientific Illustration of an electronic component, an amplifying receiver

Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916

1 March 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen slightly Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the […]

Scientific illustration of astronaut training equipment: a simulator in three axes.

Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.

23 February 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut. This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis […]

Scienitific illustration of jellyfish from the 1800s, the Valdivia Expedition

Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.

16 February 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a […]

Scientific illustration of a mouse embryo, taken with optical projection tomography, showing how loss of the BMP Antagonist expresses itself in syndactyly - in other words, a syndrome in which gene differences affect how fingers and toes grow.

Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011

9 February 2020 grant 0

Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]

Scientific illustration of a puffball, sweetbread, horn of plenty and chanterelle mushroom, from Edible and poisonous mushrooms:. London,Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,1894..

Science Art: Plate 7: Sweetbread, Horn of Plenty, Puffball, Chanterelle, from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, 1894.

2 February 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly. Mushrooms you can trust. I think. From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and […]

A stereoscopic image of Mars. Or half of a stereo image, at least.

Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.

27 January 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is

Scientific illustration of a fusion reactor, more efficient (and smaller) than a tokamak

Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007

19 January 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated […]

Scientific illustration of Mayan pyramids by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck, 19th century.

Science Art: Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon (1825-1835), by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck

12 January 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen A painting of Mayan pyramids by a mysterious man, described on Public Domain Review (where I found this image) as an “artist, […]

A scientific illustration (in the form of a cartoon) depicting the coming age of helicopters, when police will simply be able to hover by your high-rise apartment window to conduct their inquiries.

Science Art: From The Helicopters Are Coming, 1944.

5 January 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen This illustration, by Erik Nitsche and Roslyn Welcher, is from a book by CBF Macauley that claims to be “the first complete […]

Scientific illustration of an induction coil from The How and Why of Radio Apparatus. It's an old electric image. Antique equipment FTW.

Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920

29 December 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here. Electricity […]