This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus.
I can remember when they said taking pictures of viruses… Read the rest “Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope”
Beautiful machine for skilled labor.
You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org.
[via Old Book Illustrations]
The whole collection of Azerbaijan collectors’ stamps is full of scientific illustration treasure – butterflies, dirigibles, mushrooms….
And “treasure”… Read the rest “Science Art: Azerbaijan stamp, 500m – Marine gastropod Corolla spectabilis, May 1995.”
Harry Grant Dart was an illustrator, newspaperman and creator of “The Explorigator” comic strip… and a man in the suffragette era who evidently had… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerostatic Cabriolet of Tomorrow, by Harry Grant Dart, c. 1905.”
The Mars Rover Opportunity considers the textures of the Santa Maria crater on its 2,746th day on Mars. There are no footprints in that sand. There may never have been footprints… Read the rest “Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.”
An illustration by Maria Sibylla Graff Merian, daughter of an engraver, step-daughter of a painter and careful observer of the natural world. She carefully documented the steps through… Read the rest “Science Art: Alligator and Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian”
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… and look inside your cells.
Really.… Read the rest “Look inside.”
From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL”This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA’s Jet
Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in Latin.
Night is retreating!
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
This is the resplendent trogon, a Mexican bird known formally, nowadays, as Pharomachrus mocinno, and once upon a time as Trogon resplendens. In other words, it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Resplendent Trogon, J.G. Wood’s Illustrated Natural History 1898”
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral.
Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the concept.)
I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696”A relatively benign merman complete with scales caught in the Baltic
This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be hollow – possibly… Read the rest “Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder”
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