Science Art

Scientific Illustration of a warming Scotland, from #ShowYourStripes data visualization project

Science Art: Warming Stripes for Scotland from 1884-2018, from #ShowYourStripes, University of Reading’s Institute for Environmental Analytics.

6 October 2019 grant 0

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Scientific Illustration of a geological sample, from On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, an image of iron in clay.

Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868

22 September 2019 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific Illustration by Johann Georg Gichtel, of the human body - an alchemical view

Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696

15 September 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea […]

scientific illustration - a photo of the inside of a hurricane, taken by NOAA researchers

Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane

8 September 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t. This is […]

Scientific Illustration by DF Sotzmann of a tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard, a kind of sea robin.

Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)

1 September 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks […]

Scientific Illustration of Biosphere 2 - a photograph of the facility as it was in 2003, 20 years after the experiment.

Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.

25 August 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]

A scientific illustration of a beetle Des Helmore / Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research.

Science Art: (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Mitophyllus macrocerus, male, by Des Helmore

17 August 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.

Scientific illustration of T rex, named by HF Osborn, discovered by Barnum Brown, drawn by WD Matthews. Big dinosaur!

Science Art: Reconstruction on paper of Tyrannosaurus rex, from Bulletin of the AMNH, 1905 (Linda Hall Library).

11 August 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn: Osborn named and described some of the most […]

A scientific illustration as a fine-art painting by Ferdinand Warren, found at the Smithsonian here: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/weather-delay

Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren

4 August 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists […]

Scientific illustration - well, a photograph, really - of plasma forming around a vacuum tube, by BentaxGermany

Science Art: Coronal plasma on an ionization tube in operation, by BentaxGermany, 2013

28 July 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]

Scientific illustration by Galileo Galilei of the moon's phases, showing its craters and mountains.

Science Art: Galileo’s Moon Phases, 1616.

21 July 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen slightly Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills […]

scientific illustration of the sky, a perspective view of effects from ice crystals for meteological observers

Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.

14 July 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds […]

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