This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil leads and engagement rings, formed into a more geometrically… Read the rest “Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918”
Ants don’t actually spin webs.
This striking image is one of what will ultimately be more than 11,700 photographs – no, wait, multiply by three, 35,100 photographs… Read the rest “Science Art: CASENT0010677 (Cephalotes atratus), Antweb.”
From a page of botanical babies drawn by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz just before the dawn of the 19th century. Swartz was a pupil of Linnaeus, the fellow who pretty much … Read the rest “Science Art: Xylophylla, by Olof Swartz, 1791 (detail)”
From Insecten-Belustigung (Insect Amusements), a three-volume encyclopedia by 18th century German illustrator AJ Rösel von Rosenhof.
[via Bibliodyssey, via Keep… Read the rest “Helicoma spp + rhinoceros beetle, from Insecten-Belustigung, by AJ Rösel von Rosenhof, 1700s.”
From the description at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery page:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun, by E.L. Trouvelot, 1881-1882”Total eclipse of the sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory. (1881-1882)
A pair of chitons, playing catch. Or sleeping. Or enjoying a good meal. Or singing a chiton opera.
With chitons, it’s very hard to tell the difference.
The image is… Read the rest “Science Art: Chiton from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s”
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles:
This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like.
From the NASA-JPL description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975”“Life on Mars” was envisioned
Image from the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, who found it in Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage á reconneues aux Indes occidentales… Read the rest “Science Art: Esbene, by Samuel de Champlain, c. 1602”
Boa viperina, as seen in George Shaw’s General zoology, or systematic natural history. You can browse through the book at archive.org… if you’ve got a few hours to spend.… Read the rest “Science Art: Viperine Boa, James Francis Stephens, 1802.”
Little version of a big rocket.
Photo from NasaImages.org:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn I Booster Test”A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center’s 8’x6′
At one point in history, one of the world’s largest cities was in America – and it wasn’t New York or Los Angeles. It was the heart of an area on the banks of the Ohio River … Read the rest “Science Art: The Kincaid Site in Massac County, Illinois, by Herbert Roe, 2004”
Butterflies from the genus Euterpe, named for the muse of flute-playing and epic poetry known as the “giver of delight”… but also the name of a genus of South American… Read the rest “Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856”
Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the window if they looked quickly.… Read the rest “Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.”
This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the International Microgravity… Read the rest “Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2”
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