Science Art: Saturn F-1 Engine, 1964
Our first ticket off this rock. Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964. Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Science Art
Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, […]
Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]
Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
Science Art: Restoration of Pliocene fauna of North America, Smithsonian Museum.
Click to embiggen vastly This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago. […]
Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working […]
Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.
Click to embiggen Spice. In watercolor. It looks like it would smell delicious. From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural […]
Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as […]
Science Art: The Male and Female of Caligus centrodonti.
Click to embiggen Double check all your eggs – just in case. Happy Easter! The handsome couple in the image came from North American parasitic […]
Science Art: Plate XII foldout by Thomas Davidson, from The geologist : a popular monthly magazine of geology.
These are fossilized shells from Thomas Davidson’s “On Some Fossil Brachiopoda,” or “Palaeontological Notes on the Brachiopoda,” from this magazine dedicated to amateur geologists published […]
Science Art: ISS016-E-032414 (Underside of Space Shuttle Endeavour), 2008
Click to embiggen NASA has some of the best perspectives on the planet (and some of the planet’s best perspectives). Like so. This is a […]
Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h
Click to embiggen This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to […]
Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963
Click to embiggen Such a winning smile…. Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long […]
Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.
Click to embiggen This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in […]