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 meaningful, and sometimes… Read the rest “Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016”
Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a precision clock.
The book Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques is Alphonse Bertillon‘s guide for identifying criminal suspects.
These ear dimensions… Read the rest “Science Art: Oreille schematique, from Identification anthropométrique : instructions signalétiques, 1893.”
Big picture, small crab.
They crawl around the sea in Japan, Australia, Borneo and the Horn of Africa.
This one was drawn in the 1880s (like one of those French girls) aboard… Read the rest “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.”
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 how they’d look while… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono”
This is an image from this NASA eBook on high-flying fashions:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dressing for Altitude, NASA.”Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered
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 a helpful, U.S.… Read the rest “Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958”
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 what exactly RNA is… Read the rest “Science Art: The Life Cycle of Acetabularia mediterranea, 1960.”
Fish, in families. Fish, in schools.
These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when oceans were the “in” places… Read the rest “Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.”
These are the feet of prehistoric humans – little feet of children, big feet of adults. Actually, it’s an infographic based on a photograph based on rather well-preserved … Read the rest “Science Art: Vertical Image of Area A at Happisburgh, from “Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK,” 2014.”
This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing.
We knew what they would do to us. Even then, we knew.
It was published… Read the rest “Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.”
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where I found it.
It’s got a lovely geometry,… Read the rest “Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton”
Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter.
This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you can tell… Read the rest “Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.”
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who also spoke … Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Satellitum Iovis et Saturni from Atlas Coelestis by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 1742.”
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as seen many times its proper size under an electron microscope.
Tiny little… Read the rest “Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev”
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