A caisson is a machine for working under water.
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia.
Rise, German engineers. Rise.
Dive, German engineers. Dive.
Image found at Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889”
Is it cute?
It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is part of cuteness, usually. Less than a millimeter… Read the rest “Science Art: Tardigrade”
A black-and-white birth sequence.
From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”… Read the rest “Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.”
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian.
Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) most… Read the rest “Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.”
This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along and immortalize it in the pages of an encyclopedia.… Read the rest “Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]”
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest.
I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems very, very 1990s. But still –… Read the rest “Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker”
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection before winding… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850”
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*.
This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, or even why a book on American animals has aardvarks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.”
About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only Wills did it with engineering… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.”
Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for.
Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though.
He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites of Saturn. Image created with Celestia… Read the rest “Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.”
Here’s an ape with plenty of character – plenty of, dare I think it, soul.
This is not the first image from Brehm’s Tierleben (or “Brehm’s Life of Animals”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.”
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This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, as seen from space.
It’s a nearly 30,000 square … Read the rest “Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.”
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