Science Art: Cross-Section of a Typical Volcano, from Minor Mining Encyclopedia
Click to embiggen What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
Science Art
Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.
Click to embiggen Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are. I like that there’s a […]
Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.
Click to embiggen Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch. From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the […]
Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a […]
Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces! “Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed. Here’s how much room some of […]
Science Art: Selector Used for Timing Supervisory Signals, from The Bell System Technical Journal
Click to embiggen Mmm. Switches. Communication.
Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975
Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]
Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]
Science Art: Growth of Egg of Hen, c. 16th century.
From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who […]
Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889
Click to embiggen Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, […]
Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
Science Art: Australia’s Largest Birds, from What Bird Is That? by Neville William Cayley.
Click to embiggen Big birds haven’t changed too much since 1931. These are: Anseranas semipalmata Pelecanus conspicillatus Casuarius casuarius Cereopsis novaehollandiae Ardeotis australis Grus rubicunda […]
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Click to embiggen Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon. This image is part of a page of “Cosmic […]
Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017
Click to embiggen The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat: In late […]