Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.
It begins and ends with the sky.
Here’s what he read:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
A hothouse flower, far from home.
Mr. Fitch drew this picture – one of an awful lot – for The Orchid Album: Comprised of Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful… Read the rest “Science Art: Cattleya Maxima Backhousei by John Nugent Fitch, 1886”
Australian digital artist Russell Kightley does scientific visualization.
I found this particular vision on Scientific Illustration.
I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing this was a tour of Egypt…… Read the rest “Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.”
An artisan, working with technology.
A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see.
This image, of aortal… Read the rest “Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.”
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly as joy-inspiring as embracing the idea… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878”
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style.
Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the universe and figure out what we’re seeing.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move.
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We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm.
These are his aardvarks.
Earth-pigs.
After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927”
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared.
found on archive.org (pdf).
Hi, neighbors.
Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything.
Everything.
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration.
(Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.)
If there’s something familiar… Read the rest “Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick”
I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”
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