Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
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 […]
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Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move. [via]
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
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, […]
Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared. found on archive.org (pdf).
Science Art: Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, by Andrew Z. Colvin
Click to embiggen. Hi, neighbors. Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything. Everything.
Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick
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 […]
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
Click to embiggen I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character […]
Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889
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 […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
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”, by H. Bastian in […]
Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.
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) […]
Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922
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 […]
Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]
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 […]
Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker
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 […]
Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850
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 […]