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.
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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.
Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab
Click to embiggen vastly The European Space Agency was watching the jets: Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of […]
Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus
Click to embiggen A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It falls between a […]
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 album […]
Science Art: B.T. Babbit’s Low Pressure Canal Boat Steam Enterprise, 1876
Click to embiggen A big, useful boat, from Industrial America: Manufacturers and Inventors of the United States, 1876. [via New York Public Library Digital Collections]
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. […]
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, […]
Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
Click to embiggen This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des […]
Science Art: D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund…, by Albrecht Duerer, from Four Books on Measurement (Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt)
Click to embiggen The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß […]
Science Art: Fig. 10 (Theil eines Stockes von Carchesium polypinum mit zwei Individuen), by Carl Gegenbaur,1870
This is a little critter known as Carchesium polypinum, less formally a “stalked ciliate,” an organism that forms colonies that look like teensy tinesy trees, […]
Science Art: Space Shuttle, concept art from NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. This was what they planned […]