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Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix

24 February 2014 grant 0

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The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.

This is the seventh… Read the rest “Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix”

Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb

16 February 2014 grant 0

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Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million… Read the rest “Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb”

Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866

9 February 2014 grant 0

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This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins… Read the rest “Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866”

Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920

2 February 2014 grant 0

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An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.

From The preparation of illustrations for reports of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920”

Science Art: Cuesta de Viento Reservoir, Argentina, by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

27 January 2014 grant 0

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This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.

Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941

20 January 2014 grant 0

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From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice.

There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.

Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II

12 January 2014 grant 0


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A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in 361 systems. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II”

Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.

5 January 2014 grant 0

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This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.

Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”

Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,

29 December 2013 grant 0

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Rodents, as appearing in a book of medicinal herbs (619 of them?) by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Francois Alexandre de Garsault.

Or so BioDiv Library would have us believe. Leafing through… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,”

Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.

15 December 2013 grant 0

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In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars.

This map shows how people thought the moon moved in 1660 – in epicycles. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.”

Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.

8 December 2013 grant 0

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This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes *through* it. The Hubble Space Telescope… Read the rest “Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.”

Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum

1 December 2013 grant 0

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In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked.

The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to the Platonic solids, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum”

Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.

29 November 2013 grant 0

Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children.

Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on 21 February 2006.

Murail is a “spectral”… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.”

Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.

28 November 2013 grant 0

Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud account.

Happy listening.… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.”

Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.

24 November 2013 grant 0

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From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission.

I found this self-explanatory duck, marl to tail, on Scientific… Read the rest “Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.”

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