Click to embiggen This is not the famous Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) black hole image that you’ve probably seen by now. It’s a visualization of […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen Mm. Mighty mite. From a this book of mites. Luckily for us, these mites (the Oribatidae) aren’t parasitic. They live in dirt […]
Click to embiggen “Lays eggs on larva boring in wood.” Add just one comma and that comes across as harsh criticism, but it’s really meant […]
Click to embiggen An ancient Roman central heating system – hot water would be flooded through the basement, and the floors would warm up. “Hypocaust” […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans). Cute little guy, too. I found this on the Scientific […]
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. […]
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings. This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, […]
This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. […]
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
Click to embiggen I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite […]
Click to embiggen Phoning home from the next world over. This is how it looked half a century ago. You can find more James Burns […]
Click to embiggen This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 […]
Click to embiggen An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The […]
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