Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
Science Art
Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.
These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just look cool.
Also, they are horns that it seems like no one … Read the rest “Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.”
Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
Found on GRIN.
Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835
That’s Anthus aquaticus and Anthus pratensis… the rock lark up top, and the tit lark at the bottom. Stop laughing, you in the back.
There are more lark eggs where these came from… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Plate LXVIII from British oology, c. 1835”
Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701
An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII. An engine of great service to bore elms or other trees to make pipes to conveigh water, and for other uses, 1701”
Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.
This is happening now. This summer.
A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it sort of was again.
From the NASA New Horizons page… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.”
Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab
The European Space Agency was watching the jets:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab”Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of black-hole
Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus
A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
It falls between a rather pleasant-looking bush… Read the rest “Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus”
Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.
Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures… Read the rest “Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.”
Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus.
From a NASA technical document, a translation of … Read the rest “Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.”
Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…
A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, a 1910 treatise… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…”
Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”