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, […]
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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 […]
Science Art: While master @AstroTerry cuts, apprentice @AntonAstrey is at the vacuum cleaner. Apprendista Anton all’aspirapolvere, by Sam Cristoforetti.
Performing delicate procedures in space: a zero-G haircut for New Year’s. From Italian astronaut @AstroSamantha’s Twitter feed. The process starts here, if you want to […]
Science Art: Nest of the Honey-Wasp Attacked by Jaguar, 1916
Click to embiggen From Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, edited by Edward Step, found in the BioDiversity Library. This […]
Science Art: Astronauts Clown Around In Space
Click to embiggen In 1984, astronauts had to ride out in the Space Shuttle Discovery to retrieve two broken-down satellites, and decided to have a […]
Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.
Click to embiggen Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond. From General Meteorology […]
Science Art: Age of Oceanic Crust, NOAA, modified by Rapture2018.
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
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: 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.