Science Art: Trilobites (Sketch Pad), by Manchestersciart
Click to embiggen Prehistoric life, today’s exercises. From Life in Retrograde, via ScientificIllustration.tumblr.com.
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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 […]
Science Art: Patterns of taxonomic and morphological diversification in early ray-finned fishes, M. Friedman.
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 […]
Science Art: Vertical Image of Area A at Happisburgh, from “Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK,” 2014.
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 […]
Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing. We knew what they […]
Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton
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 […]
Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]