Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171
Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]
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Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]
Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883
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 […]
Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990
Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]
Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp
This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot […]
Science Art: Trilobites (Sketch Pad), by Manchestersciart
Click to embiggen Prehistoric life, today’s exercises. From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
Science Art: Belt Trick by Jason Hise
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 […]
Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016
Click to embiggen You’d think after the week I’ve had, I’d be sick of looking at meteorological imagery. But no. This stuff is beautiful, and […]
Science Art: Aneroiddose für die Luftdruckkompensation des Pendels, by Sigmund Riefler
Click to embiggen Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a […]
Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.
Click to embiggen The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects. These ear dimensions were one way you […]
Science Art: Hyastenus convexus, from Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2.
Click to embiggen Big picture, small crab. They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa. This one was drawn […]
Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and […]
Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.
Click to embiggen This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions: Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but […]
Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists. Then the 60s happened. From […]
Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.
This is how an alga (that’s how it’s spelled in the book) reproduces. It looks like an underwater nasturtium. Here, it’s being used to demonstrate […]