I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which is, ahem, “a typical… Read the rest “Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos”
Such a winning smile….
Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long (that’s nigh onto… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963”
This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in 1894.
Reaching for the stars,… Read the rest “Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.”
A triumph of engineering. It moves earth! Using “the bucket principle”!
As found in The Linda Hall Library.
A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn.
… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)”Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that their own gravity is sufficient to overcome
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This is a detail of a page from Geology for Beginners, comprising a familiar explanation of geology, and its associate sciences, an 1842 introduction to stones and mountains… Read the rest “Science Art: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Figs. 44 and 45 from “Crystalline Forms,” G.F. Richardson, 1842”
Yeah, this was just rebroadcast on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. But why not?
A pretty good country song that does everything you’d want a science song to do.
First found on dthorne books.
I’m guessing this came from a very old Scientific American (maybe 1930s?), but can’t really say for sure.
Welcome, 2016.
There’s a star in the East….
This is the Early Modern Milky Way, as appearing in an edition of the ‘Poeticon Astronomicon‘ by the Latin author Hyginus (although the credit also goes to… Read the rest “Science Art: XLII: Milky Way from Mythographi Latini by Thomas Munckerus/Hyginus, 1681.”
I found this elegant (if obscure) glassware at the public domain image repository at Reusable Art.
I’m guessing it was used to detect poisons more so than to examine tea, but I honestly… Read the rest “Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.”
The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big rocket. The most powerful ever built.
Well, once… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight”
A shellfish that was around when megalodons swam and the first crows flew.
It was drawn by J.C. McConnell, a doctor who officially worked as a clerk for the Army Medical Museum,… Read the rest “Science Art: Ecphora gardnerae, by J.C. McConnell”
In which the virtuoso discusses the techniques, range and aesthetics of the instrument.
And, you know, plays a little.
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