Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894
Click to embiggen A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, […]
Science Art
Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.
Click to embiggen vastly A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready. Though I wonder how […]
Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH).
Click to embiggen Ooo! Everyone loves a party! This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, […]
Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans. More specifically: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ). Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink […]
Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014
Click embiggen So much depends on perspective. Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a […]
Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22
Click to embiggen Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a […]
Science Art: Lychee, from Flora Sinensis, 1656.
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, […]
Science Art: Blackbird SR-71 engine nozzle, 2011
Click to embiggen “Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.” Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890
Click to embiggen This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt. I look […]
Science Art: Mouth of Petromyzon Marinus with its Horny Teeth,
This is a “more definitely suctorial mouth with horny cuticular teeth,” according to Francis Maitland Balfour, a British biologist with a particularly distinguished name and […]
Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).
Click to embiggen This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s […]
Science Art: Motion in Space, 1950
We’re moving on a planet that’s moving around a sun that’s moving – that way. Not a moment of stillness anywhere. From The Physical Sciences, […]
Science Art: Head Frames, Figs. 3-6, from The Design of Mine Structures, 1912.
Types of head works for mines. These frames helped draw out the rocks that the miners were busy breaking up deep underground. At the time […]
Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis
A finger-bone from the other archaic humans – besides Neanderthals, there were Denisovans. And one of the fragments we know them from looked like this, […]
Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964
Click to embiggen This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space […]