Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Science Art
Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian
Click to embiggen At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they […]
Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran
Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]
Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.
“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 […]
Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553
Click to embiggen slightly An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum. […]
Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA
Click to embiggen There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show […]
Science Art: Matsaki Polychrome Bowls of Shape 2, from The Excavation of Hawikuh, 1966.
Pottery charts are cool. This expedition report is full of ’em.
Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889
Click to embiggen Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were […]
Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8
Click to embiggen vastly The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 […]
Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.
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 […]
Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886
Click to embiggen Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.
Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.
Click to embiggen A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the […]
Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.
Click to embiggen It spins, you know. This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West. I found […]
Science Art: Engine, by ESA
Click to embiggen The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.” The description offers little more […]
Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
Click to embiggen Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes […]