Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)
Click to embiggen My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all […]
Science Art
Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946
Click to embiggen It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a […]
Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)
Click to embiggen This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals […]
Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
Science Art: Submarine Reactor, by Webber, 2007.
How the submarine goes. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s […]
Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
Science Art: A space-ship might look like this, John W. Wood, 1968.
Click to embiggen An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book […]
Science Art: Fig. 2 from “Drawings, views and engine of the Levasseur transatlantic plane” in NACA Aircraft Circular #50, Levasseur 8 Transatlantic Airplane, 1927.
Click to embiggen This is from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, […]
Science Art: Sarcoptes scabiei, from Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, 1892.
Click to embiggen They itch. They dig in and they itch. These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin […]
Science Art: Figure 3, Transverse Section of a Single Cell by F. Bauer, Esq., F.R.S., 1827.
Click to embiggen Take a deep breath. This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t […]
Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of […]
Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.
Click to embiggen vastly. This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources […]
Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s. [via scientificillustration.tumblr.com]
Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.
Click to embiggen This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full […]