From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898”
Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling.
Maybe not the source, but the seat.
From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849”
Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before Thanksgiving 2016:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag”Ice shelves are
This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on Nov. 18 of this year.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor”
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.
This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”
Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”
Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.
From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”
Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our sinuses. Evolutionarily, they say they’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within”
Aren’t they the cutest little things?
These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of them can… Read the rest “Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883”
This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a really big fan (with wooden blades!)… Read the rest “Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990”
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot more than the other end… Read the rest “Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp”
Prehistoric life, today’s exercises.
From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
The belts always twist, but never get tangled. Geometry can be weird.
If you find this hypnotic, check out what the same creator has done with a dodecahedron. Round and around and around….
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