Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863
Click to embiggen Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s […]
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Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]
Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890
Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather
Click to embiggen In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images. I found this […]
Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney. Ah, tradition. Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a […]
Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re […]
Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s. An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an […]
Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using […]
Science Art: Helical Granum, by Kelvinsong
Click to embiggen Though it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad. It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid […]
Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.
Click to embiggen It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice […]
Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice
Click to embiggen Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space. From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future […]
Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger
Click to embiggen Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks […]
Science Art: Marconi Photo-Cell for Transmitter from Television Optics, 1938.
Embryonic television. I like how this device has an almost Lovecraftian vibe, as if sending moving pictures was a thing that involved mystical processes. What’s […]