It spins, you know.
This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West.
I found it, or at least the magazine in which… Read the rest “Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.”
The European Space Agency has a way with names. This is in their image library as “Engine.”
The description offers little more detail: The ducted fan engine… Read the rest “Science Art: Engine, by ESA”
Fans of Roderick on the Line may recognize these as living metaphors for modern marketing offers. But they’re invading the Great Lakes (literally) where they grow… Read the rest “Science Art: Sea Lamprey Larvae in Hand 2, by R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission.”
This is a diagram of how a solar eclipse works, or at least how they thought one worked in the 14th century. It might be one of the very first illustrations of its kind. As explained by the book’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Theorica Eclipsis Solaris, by Georg von Peurbach.”
The Malibu Painter, who probably painted this, was not active in California’s surf culture, but in Egypt around the time the first Christians started showing up.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mummy Portrait of a Woman (73.AP.91), attributed to Malibu Painter.”
Butterflies of South Asia and Central and South America.
Pretty butterflies. Or, as James Duncan and Sir William Jardine called them, Foreign Butterflies.
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Two torpedoes, modern (as of 1916) and ancient. That’s about the limit of my French. The book is about naval warfare, and was published while World War I was going … Read the rest “Science Art: Torpille Moderne/Torpille Ancienne from Dreadnought ou submersible by Olivier Guihéneuc, 1916”
This is a fairly speculative reconstruction of an elephant-relative we really only know from footprints (or so says Wikimedia Commons, who are probably on the money here).… Read the rest “Science Art: Dinotherium, by Heinrich Harder,1916.”
A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, … Read the rest “Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894”
A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready.
Though I wonder how welding would really work in a low-oxygen atmosphere.… Read the rest “Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.”
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Ooo! Everyone loves a party!
This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, description) is “Top view of ribbon diagram… Read the rest “Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH). ”
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans.
More specifically:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.”Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ).
Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
So much depends on perspective.
Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a little prep work, a little early investigating,… Read the rest “Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014”
Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a mere century… Read the rest “Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22”
This is Litchi chinensis, 荔枝, the lychee, sometimes called a “lychee nut” although it’s not nut-like at all. It’s more like a muscadine (tough skin, sweet juiciness)… Read the rest “Science Art: Lychee, from Flora Sinensis, 1656.”
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