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Science Art

Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.

24 June 2012 grant 1


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We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before.

While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.”

Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.

17 June 2012 grant 0

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 into the microscope,… Read the rest “Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.”

Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839

10 June 2012 grant 0

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 … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”

Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974

28 May 2012 grant 0


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Poppies.

For Memorial Day.

Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was represent things precisely.

[via archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974”

Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.

27 May 2012 grant 2

Alexander Anderson, medical doctor and illustrator, is remembered as America’s first wood engraver. He helped Samuel Mitchill explain what that was wriggling on the end of the … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.”

Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier

21 May 2012 grant 0


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When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator.

From the Tissandier collection in the Library of Congress, a dream of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier”

Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.

13 May 2012 grant 0

This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.”

Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912

6 May 2012 grant 0


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In 1912, aeronautics was a sport.

And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their spark plugs, made magnetos. And summoned… Read the rest “Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912”

Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

29 April 2012 grant 0


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The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a ?+ and ?- pair.

It’s what happens … Read the rest “Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”

Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.

23 April 2012 grant 1


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This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.

Eskimos and tapirs.

You can browse through your… Read the rest “Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.”

Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker

15 April 2012 grant 0

This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional lives and their bizarre ability to… Read the rest “Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker”

Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt

8 April 2012 grant 0


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This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like the 16th planet discovered by the Kepler mission is moving… Read the rest “Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt”

Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard

1 April 2012 grant 0


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Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood.

Very, very enlarged blood.

Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Science Art: FAGOCITOSI BY RAFF by Raffmara.

24 March 2012 grant 0


Look, this isn’t funny, OK? This isn’t funny at all.

If this wasn’t going on inside your body all the time, you would be SO sick. So TOTALLY sick. EVERY SINGLE DAY. But you’re… Read the rest “Science Art: FAGOCITOSI BY RAFF by Raffmara.”

Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.

18 March 2012 grant 0


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This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes from the 80s but it must’ve been… Read the rest “Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.”

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