From the NOAA Photo Library, Historic Fisheries Collection, in the somewhat questionably titled ” Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals” section.… Read the rest “Science Art: Manatees Swimming by Henry W. Elliott”
From a series of zoological wall hangings (you remember these from classrooms, don’t you?) found on Scientific Illustrations.
Viennese teacher Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller… Read the rest “Science Art: Ophidia I. Tropidonotus natrix Tab 18, by Paul Pfurtscheller”
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the… Read the rest “And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…”
Click to embiggen
Pierre Belon was a naturalist in the Renaissance. He graduated from medical school, then apprenticed himself to a botanist and wandered from France to Palestine, drawing… Read the rest “Science Art: Octopos vulgo Graeco, by Pierre Belon (Petri Bellonii Cenomani), in De aquatilibus, 1553”
Marine biology from the Diesel Age. Crowded organisms, barely visible through the equipment. (And I’m talking about the researchers.)
Photo from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries… Read the rest “Science Art: Examining Plankton Haul, Plankton Hydrographic Cruise, Research Vessel Atlantis by O.E. Sette, 1935”
The artist and writer William Beebe is better known for his deep sea explorations than his wattle portraiture. He studied at Columbia, but spent too much time exploring and collecting specimens… Read the rest “Science Art: Wattles of Cock Tragopans, by William Beebe, from A Monograph on Pheasants, 1918-1922.”
In 1867, the typewriter was a ridiculous leap in technology.
The editor of Punch anticipated the next step:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “Good News for Bad Writers” (The Typewriter, Punch, September1867)”“Writing Superseded. — Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, is the
In case you hadn’t heard, China is building its own space station. Not planning to build. Not any more. Building.
The Tiangong 1 mission launched on Thursday from Jiuqian Satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Tiangong 1, by China Manned Space Engineering, 2011”
Octopus up-skirts. For science.
The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily:
* I found it on a blog…
* that reposted it from a Smithsonian Institute… Read the rest “Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915”
Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it got there.
This is a “false-color”… Read the rest “Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft”
I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what happens when a Lactobacillus… Read the rest “Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute”
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
As far as I can tell, the name of the volume from which this illustration came means “The Joy of Insects.”
I’m not making that up.
A.J. Rösel von Rosenhof… Read the rest “Science Art: Locusta Indica (from Insecten-Belustigang by A.J. Rösel von Rosenhof)”
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
.jpg){kind=link}