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 […]
Click to embiggen In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars. This map shows how people thought the moon moved in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, […]
Thus do we master the physical world. From Mechanical Engineering, a journal published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1919.
From Etsy. Scientific illustration has profound effects on some people. It surfaces in the unlikeliest places. The same lingerie-maker has some rather comely pelvis print […]
An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s. Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan. The whole book is charming. From the […]
Why is this brain area important? I have no words. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.” Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s […]
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