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
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 […]
Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974
Click to embiggen Poppies. For Memorial Day. Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was […]
Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.
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 […]
Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier
Click to embiggen When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator. From the Tissandier collection in the Library of […]
Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
Science Art: Bosch Magneto ad, Aeronautics, July, 1912
Click to embiggen In 1912, aeronautics was a sport. And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their […]
Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Click to embiggen The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a […]
Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.
Click to embiggen This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909. Eskimos and tapirs. […]
Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker
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 […]
Science Art: Where the sun sets twice, by NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hunt
Click to embiggen This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like […]
Science Art: A red blood cell in a capillary, pancreatic tissue – TEM, by Louisa Howard
Click to embiggen Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood. Very, very enlarged blood. Image from Wikimedia Commons.