Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.
Click to embiggen A train! A big ol’ train! This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book […]
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Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947
From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947. This is what little kids were reading then. Not that our culture is in decline […]
Science Art: Dinner in the Mould of the Iguanodon, by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854.
A paleontological dinner party, as drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, the sculptor who also made the dining accommodations – an Iguanodon. Nowadays, we know (or […]
Science Art: Veins in the Region of the Temple, 1875
A profile of a profile, from Studies in the Facial Region by Harrison Allen. [via nemfrog]
Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries […]
Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS
Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]
Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.
Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]
Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898
Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!
Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849
Click to embiggen Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling. Maybe not the source, but the seat. From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural […]
Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag
Click to embiggen Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before […]
Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor
Click to embiggen This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on […]
Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.
Click to embiggen A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas. From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort […]
Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941
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 […]
Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]