Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007
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 […]
Science Art
Science Art: Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon (1825-1835), by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck
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, […]
Science Art: From The Helicopters Are Coming, 1944.
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 […]
Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920
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 […]
Science Art: The evolution of the synapsid reptiles, by John C. Germann,1945
Click to embiggen These are not dinosaurs – they’re older than that – but they are in The Dinosaur Book, Edwin H. Colbert’s 1945 guide […]
Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia
Click to embiggen A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds […]
Science Art: Hybrid Wing Body, NASA, 2013
Click to embiggen NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings […]
Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
Click to embiggen slightly A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It’s […]
Science Art: Neurons from rat brain tissue stained green with antibody to ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1)… by Gerry Shaw, 2005
Click to embiggen Glia are the cells around neurons that manufacture myelin (the insulation around nerve cells), help repair cell damage and, apparently, have something […]
Science Art: Genesee County Hogs of the “Swill-Pail Breed,” from Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, March 22, 1862
Click to embiggen Swill-pail hogs from upstate New York, as featured on the front page of Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, a delightful paper that promised “Agriculture, […]
Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier
Click to embiggen slightly A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network. A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. […]
Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019
Click to embiggen vastly UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the […]
Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.
Click to embiggen Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the […]
Science Art: The normal conduction system of the heart, by Rob Kreuger.
Just looking at heart pictures. No reason. Nice when they work right. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Development of the Gonophore…., 1891
Click to embiggen From Johns Hopkins circular “On the Structure and Development of the Gonophores of a Certain Siphonophore Belonging to the Order Auronectae (Haeckel).” […]