Science Art: Paper Wings, by Nicole Frost.
Click to embiggen These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator: This is my […]
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Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.
Click to embiggen This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive […]
Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.
Click to embiggen File this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.” The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a […]
Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society
Click to embiggen This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as […]
Plate LXXVII: The First Picture of an American Butterfly from The Butterfly Book by W.J. Holland, 1930 edition.
Click to embiggen In 1930, this picture… or rather, the picture with the inscriptions beside it… had never before been published. And the inscriptions are […]
Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.
Click to embiggen Jaws! Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a […]
Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and […]
Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
Click to embiggen from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review. The invisible made visible.
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 […]
Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910
Click to embiggen This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is […]
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
Click to embiggen vastly 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 […]
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
Click to embiggen An illustration from New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which […]
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.
Click to embiggen This is happening now. This summer. A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it […]
Science Art: No. 1 and No. 2, from Primer of the Clinical Microscope, 1879.
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.