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A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind.
From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.”Pollen from a variety of common plants: sunflower
A portrait of a tattoo of an anatomical engraving, each of which is beautiful enough on its own….
From D.E. Eastman, via Scientific Illustration.
A walrus! A walrus! Seen inside and out in Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, written by Lorenz Oken.
I can’t find anything out about the artist, lithographer St. Schillinger,… Read the rest “Science Art: Walross (Brochus)… (detail), by St. Schillinger, 1833-1841”
From the mustachioed microscope-gazer who gave us the method (for staining specimens), the receptor (inside our tendons) and the bodies (inside our cells) comes a hypnotic look inside… Read the rest “Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875”
This is a Julbock – a “Yule goat” – from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
From the tumblog bequietyellingcat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.”museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. so now i’m pretending
That’s what this Scientific American column is saying, pretty much. I can’t beat illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios’ blog-ready headline: 5 Reasons Your Camera Won’t… Read the rest “A decent illustration’s worth a dozen pictures.”
This is it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Reflections by NASA/Bill Ingalls”This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch Pad 39A, Thursday, July 7, 2011. Atlantis
This is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, meaning it’s probably best if we don’t… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898”
From the image’s archive.org page:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy, by Holland Ford, et al. (5/25/1994)”A schematic diagram of velocity measurements of a rotating disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. The measurement was made by studying
The innards of a nuclear reactor, from a relatively recent patent application. That is, 1966. By inventor Philo T. Farnsworth.
It’s a fusor, which is to say a thing that makes fusion… Read the rest “Science Art: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor (U.S. Patent 3,386,883)”
Mmm. Borer beetles. Or, more precisely, Wallace’s long-horn beetle.
Beetle-obsessed millionaire James Thomson’s book is on archive.org, but I found it via [Scientific… Read the rest “Science Art: Batocera Wallacei, from Archives entomologiques ou Recueil contenant des illustrations d’insectes nouveaux our rares by James Thomson, 1857”
This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it got in the Cambrian period, an age… Read the rest “Science Art: Laggania cambria, statue by Espen Horn (photo by H. Zell)”
This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum. Others… Read the rest “Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)”
It’s a party!
I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows to break.
[Book preserved… Read the rest “Science Art: “Fig 44: Painting of a Bantu Wedding Dance” from The Pre-Historic Period in South Africa, 1910”
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