Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
Science Art
Science Art: Styracosaurus, by Julio Lacerda
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 […]
Science Art: RCA Lunar Communications by James Burns
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 […]
Science Art: A Plunge into Space, book cover, 1890.
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 […]
Science Art: Helicodiceros crinitus Schott by J. Strohmayer / Anstalt v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wein.
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 […]
Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot
Click to embiggen NASA serves the ham in a tray. “Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because […]
Science Art: Tiny planets….
Click to embiggen Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog: Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are […]
Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972
Click to embiggen Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral. In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, […]
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“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 […]
Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.
Click to embiggen Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896. From […]
Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome. I […]
Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS
Click to embiggen This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or […]
Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]