This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. Keulemans, C. Whymper and others. by Francis H. … Read the rest “Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.”
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, which was the book of the month at the Glasgow University… Read the rest “Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher”
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. The scientist who wrote it, Louis Jurine,… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2. Monoculus quadricornis fuscus, a copepod female by Mlle. Christine Jurine”
A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was when the sun was at a specific point in the sky at the equinoxes… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2”
I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite so … of the dawn, I guess.… Read the rest “Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda”
Phoning home from the next world over.
This is how it looked half a century ago.
You can find more James Burns illustrations for the Apollo mission here.
[via Humanoid History… Read the rest “Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns”
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This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 to 1910. It’s about a scientist, Henry Barnett,… Read the rest “Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.”
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An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The artist… Read the rest “Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.”
NASA serves the ham in a tray.
“Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because getting the rocket together was as unlikely as having… Read the rest “Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot”
Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiny planets….”Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are seen as
Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral.
In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, Gyroceras… Read the rest “Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972”
This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this was how we put things (and, eventually, people)… Read the rest “Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.”
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.”(a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing through the magnetostatic
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things inside atoms – neutrons, protons, … Read the rest “Science Art: Atom Nucleon”
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Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896.
From the “Early… Read the rest “Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.”
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