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
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 […]
Science Art: The “Johnson” Bucket Excavator, from American journal of railway appliances, 1886.
Click to embiggen A triumph of engineering. It moves earth! Using “the bucket principle”! As found in The Linda Hall Library.
Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Click to embiggen A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn. Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that […]
Science Art: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Figs. 44 and 45 from “Crystalline Forms,” G.F. Richardson, 1842
Click to embiggen This is a detail of a page from Geology for Beginners, comprising a familiar explanation of geology, and its associate sciences, an […]
Science Art: Geology, by Brad Paisley
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 Art: Maladieu du Cheval, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Click to embiggen A horse, looking well. From Manuel vétérinaire, ou traité sur les Maladies du Cheval, et sur les remédes qu’on doit employer pour […]
Science Art: Flaming Storms on the Sun’s Face
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.
Science Art: Acanthophracta (detail) by Ernst Haeckel.
There’s a star in the East….
Science Art: XLII: Milky Way from Mythographi Latini by Thomas Munckerus/Hyginus, 1681.
Click to embiggen This is the Early Modern Milky Way, as appearing in an edition of the ‘Poeticon Astronomicon‘ by the Latin author Hyginus (although […]
Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.
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 […]
Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight
Click to embiggen The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big […]