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Scientific illustration of moths, orange and brown and green and black, pictured as if flying in tight formation.

Science Art: Plate LXXXI from A natural history of British moths, 1872.

23 November 2025 grant 0

These are English moths, of the geni Rhodophaea, Oncocera, Aphomia, Galleria, Melliphora, Halias and Sarrothripa. Each species in this book has a description like: The […]

Scientific illustration of two Hot Air Motors, devices that turned hot air into circular motion. It's a very 1890s-looking ad, with about 8 typefaces arrayed between two different mechanisms with vertical cylinders between metal legs supporting some kind of spinning wheel contraption.

Science Art: New Patent Hot Air Motors…, 1894

17 November 2025 grant 0

This is an ad from the back cover of Science Gossip magazine, a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog. These “hot-air motors” were made by […]

Scientific illustration of the inside of a snake's eye - lens, cornea, retina in black and white.

Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942

10 November 2025 grant 0

When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was […]

Scientific illustration of a fisher or fisher cat, a weasel relative that hunts in the woods of North America. Brown, sleek, looking down from a branch, curious and intense.

Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher

3 November 2025 grant 0

This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and […]

Scientific illustration of RNA and mRNA doing stuff inside a cell.

Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018

27 October 2025 grant 0

A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that […]

Scientific illustration of the coiled spirals and twisting arrows of a molecular diagram, hand drawn and colored.

Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase

20 October 2025 grant 0

Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move […]

Scientific illustration of a spiral galaxy snapped by a space telescope, a yellow and blue spiral whirling against the blackness of space, with a bonus image of an asteroid moving much closer to Earth off to the right side, visible as four thin, colored lines: snapped when the telescope took four different colored exposures.

Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025

13 October 2025 grant 0

This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). […]

Scientific illustration of a mapmaking tool and astronomical tool from the 1600s, a series of circles with numbers and arrows with gaps for determining distances and angles.

Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606

6 October 2025 grant 0

This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian […]

Scientific illustration of ospreys, a family of black-and-white birds of prey, two parents feeding their young above the trees of a waterway.

Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix

29 September 2025 grant 0

Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a historical magazine layout about the unconquered Seminoles, with a map of Florida and a large, black-and-white photo of a proud woman with an asymmetrical headdress and a high collar looking off to one side.

Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942

21 September 2025 grant 0

This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns […]

Scientific illustration of the seven components of a personality, according to Charles Baudouin - a diagram that looks almost like a magical seal, interlocking circles inside a triangle overlapped by a three-part circle.

Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB

15 September 2025 grant 0

These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, […]

Scientific illustration of a radical molecule, a diagram of interlocking black hexagons and white rods, looking something like a space station map made from soda straws.

Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011

8 September 2025 grant 0

I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks […]

Scientific illustration of a video camera tube, a cylindrical electronic component, drawn in shades of gray over a background of Chinese writing, mathematical formulae, and typed computer readouts.

Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966

31 August 2025 grant 0

A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning […]

Scientific illustration of an electronic brain, a glowing network of light spilling up from a city and into a colossal floating brain overhead, blue and purple lights against a black sky.

Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT

25 August 2025 grant 0

Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI. From the image description on Wikimedia Commons: ChatGPT […]

Scientific illustration of many fish, arrayed in splendor: sharks, rays, skates, lungfish, anglerfish, sea horses, porcupine fish, so many fish.

Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .

18 August 2025 grant 0

The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There […]