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
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 […]
Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
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 […]
Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.
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, […]
Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.
Click to embiggen About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only […]
Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.
Click to embiggen Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for. Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though. He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites […]
Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.
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 […]
Science Art: Spilled Paint, Landsat 7, 2003.
Click to embiggen vastly This image is from the Earth As Art 3 collection, and shows the Great Salt Desert of Iran, the Dasht-e Kavir, […]
Science Art: Fig. 4, Sketch of skull of Desmatochelys lowi, from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960.
A sea turtle from the end of the age of dinosaurs. Image from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.
Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine […]
Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839
Things will get better. This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard […]