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 […]
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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.
Science Art: FAGOCITOSI BY RAFF by Raffmara.
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 […]
Science Art: 5257: Life cycle of Diphyllobothrium latum.
Click to embiggen This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes […]
Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back […]
Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]
Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.
Click to embiggen slightly This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty. It also put out fires, nobly, […]
Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a […]
Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.
Click to embiggen vastly E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted […]
Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead
Click to embiggen This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in […]
Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.
Image from Wikimedia Commons. These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical […]
Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales. This […]