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An image of the summer sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) by William Peck, F.R.A.S., from his book, The constellations and how to find them; 13 maps, showing the position … Read the rest “Science Art: Map IX: The Constellations of June and July by William Peck.”
Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this stamp, commemorating the Mariner 10 probe… Read the rest “Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston”
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This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done upward or downward from between the ribs beside the sternum.… Read the rest “Science Art: Heart normal parasternal long axis echocardiography view by Patrick J. Lynch”
A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.
From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,
Single-celled algae, magnified 500 times.
They float in ponds and stream banks. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, in the Rev. Francis Wolle’s 1884 book Desmids … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XIV (Cosmarium species from Desmids of the United States….”
This airship is a kind of ancestor of the blimp or dirigible, designed by 19th-century American artist and inventor Rufus Porter, who’s perhaps best remembered today not for his … Read the rest “Science Art: Rufus Porter’s “Travelling Balloon,” later renamed the “aeroport,” from Mechanics magazine, Nov. 8, 1834”
A way NASA plans to get core samples from Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, and beyond – a drill designed to cut bedrock.
From the NASA Technical Report on the device:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Perspective Cutaway View of a Rotary Hammering Sample Acquisition Section (Fig. 5) from NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20150003208”Using
An Easter Sunday lunch is served: an early bird!
This is the Chinese feathered dinosaur Sinocalliopteryx gigas, chomping the bird Confuciusornis – something … Read the rest “Science Art: Sinocalliopteryx gigas as a stealth hunter feeding on the primitive bird Confuciusornis, by Cheung Chungtat”
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This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of some of the data that helped… Read the rest “Science Art: Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy, by NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen”
A horological device called a “verge escapement” (on the bottom) with a balance wheel (on the top) from a pocketwatch.
An “escapement” is the thing that makes… Read the rest “Science Art: Verge Watch Escapement, from The Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary, Vol. 2, 1820.”
Mm. Mighty mite.
From a this book of mites.
Luckily for us, these mites (the Oribatidae) aren’t parasitic. They live in dirt (which they turn, like earthworm), and… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate LIL, Fig 3: Cepheus bifidatus Nymph, from British Oribatidae, 1884”
“Lays eggs on larva boring in wood.” Add just one comma and that comes across as harsh criticism, but it’s really meant as a compliment.
This is from … Read the rest “Science Art: Ichneumon Fly, from the USDA’s Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 1941”
An ancient Roman central heating system – hot water would be flooded through the basement, and the floors would warm up. “Hypocaust” was the name of… Read the rest “Science Art: Hypocaustum excavated behind the old city of Rottenburg am Neckar , by Eduard von Kallee.”
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an eccentric entrepreneur who financed… Read the rest “Science Art: Four views of the Alvan Clark & Sons workshop…, from Scientific American, Sep. 24, 1887”
A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans).
Cute little guy, too.
I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, which got it from the Cincinnati Public… Read the rest “Science Art: Progne purpurea. Purple martin, by Howard Jones, 1886”
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