… Read the rest “Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968”“Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo 8, December
Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.”
These are from a chapter on direct-current… Read the rest “Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907”
A red laser pointer. A chunk of “bad” glass. A blank wall. And here, a remarkable thing.
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Red laser through irregular glass mj1, by Mariojan Photo, 2007”A red laser beam passes
Look up!
I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically curated) … Read the rest “Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory”
At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they call “banana” (if I’m reading the Dutch text… Read the rest “Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian”
This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery.
The NASA folks say:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran”This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.”
So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is not a joke.
An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum.
This may have been more timely on… Read the rest “Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553”
There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show what it looks like in space when… Read the rest “Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA”
Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were wheels, spinning.
A glimpse of the microscopic… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889”
The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8”
I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share.
It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy (Puer Capite Elephantino) and the Horned Infant (Infans… Read the rest “Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.”
A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the wake of hurricanes, cut up ones that have fallen down.
Technically,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.”
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