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, […]
From the image’s archive.org page: A schematic diagram of velocity measurements of a rotating disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. […]
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 […]
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 Illustration].
Click to embiggen This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen It’s a party! I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows […]
Click to embiggen and animate This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil […]
Click to embiggen Ants don’t actually spin webs. This striking image is one of what will ultimately be more than 11,700 photographs – no, wait, […]
Click to embiggen From a page of botanical babies drawn by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz just before the dawn of the 19th century. Swartz was […]
Click to embiggen From Insecten-Belustigung (Insect Amusements), a three-volume encyclopedia by 18th century German illustrator AJ Rösel von Rosenhof. [via Bibliodyssey, via Keep Your Pebbles.]
Click to embiggen From the description at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery page: Total eclipse of the sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at […]
Click to embiggen A pair of chitons, playing catch. Or sleeping. Or enjoying a good meal. Or singing a chiton opera. With chitons, it’s very […]
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles: [via Yahoo!News]
Click to embiggen This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like. From the NASA-JPL description: […]
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