An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain Review.
The geometry of this geology is marvelous. I … Read the rest “Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868”
A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea of organ systems from, really. Trying … Read the rest “Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696”
Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t.
This is not that Category 5 storm. This was apparently uploaded… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane”
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It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks along the bottom using… Read the rest “Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
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A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Reconstruction on paper of Tyrannosaurus rex, from Bulletin of the AMNH, 1905 (Linda Hall Library).”Osborn named and described some of the most famous dinosaurs in the world,
From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists… Read the rest “Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren”
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If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds it like a corona around the sun.… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013”
Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills and valleys. Craters.… Read the rest “Science Art: Galileo’s Moon Phases, 1616.”
These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds are overhead. Ice crystals refract sunlight… Read the rest “Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.”
Three kinds of squid-kids (I think; at least one is identified as a juvenile), from the research expedition of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars, published in 1912. These… Read the rest “Science Art: Cephalopoda (Figs. 441-443), from The Depths of the Ocean, 1912”
It’s funny, see? See?
This cartoon appeared in Resonance between an article called “Genetics to Genetic Algorithms: Solution to Optimisation Problems… Read the rest “Science Art: X-Ray Lab, cartoon from Resonance: Journal of Scientific Education, August 1996.”
I’m not sure if this really is a scientific illustration, but I think, given the time, it counts as natural history. This thing – heads made of… well…… Read the rest “Science Art: Water, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566”
The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and coastline. Their teacher, Petrus Plancius… Read the rest “Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century”
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