Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang. It’s part of […]
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Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]
Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]
Science Art: “How to Get Ahead in Science? Simple.” Jim Kelly, Houston Press, August 19, 1991.
Ever since the Buckyball story broke big last year, Rice University chemist Rick Smalley has been getting the phone calls. Rick, they say, this is […]
Science Art: Catafalque at a Funeral at Hubbatale, ca. 1925 from “Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of Southern India” by Paul Hockings.
Found on Archive.org’s collection of Fieldiana. A “catafalque” is a kind of dais on which a coffin rests when it’s on display, as for a […]
Science Art: Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz spreads bean dip on a tortilla, from The Astronaut’s Cookbook, 2010
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half […]
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending […]
Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.
People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me. Well, here’s what working in a […]
Science Art: First test flight with an aerostat at Annonay
From “Collection 476, 1re série” collector cards showing the history of ballooning. They were printed in France sometime before 1900. The Montgolfier Brothers flew their […]
Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu […]
Science Art: Plan for the Muscles of the Eye by John Bell, 1810
A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, […]
Science Art: Black Hole Lensing by Urbane Legend
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]
Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou! It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Science Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from