A close-up from another page of Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. This may be mistitled – other creatures on the same page were called… Read the rest “Science Art: Ventricose Cuttlefish, probably by Charles Knight”
Seals and seal hunters, from Charles Knight’s Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, exact publication date unknown but currently accessible at archive.org.… Read the rest “Science Art: Seals, from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.”
… Read the rest “Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton”The missile to launch a missile
was almost a secret.
Two male Ph.D.’s were picked
and primed to fill it
and one hundred
carefully counted insects,
three almost new snakes,
coiled in a cube,
This is a modern tracing
of a 1461 illustration
of a 1364 drawing
of a mechanical clock
that represented the movement of the universe.
Funny how Venice itself looks like Venetian glass from far enough away, ain’t it?
From NASA’s Landsat 7 archive.
Happy birthday, America – … Read the rest “Science Art: Venice, Italy, by Landsat 7, 2001.”
Lemurs. The monkey-like creatures found sporting with the chameleons on Madagascar, what?
Look at all of them. There are some marmosets and manikins in there as well. Like children. Little… Read the rest “Science Art: “Lemurs,” from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1844.”
This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries.
Sidney Hall was an engraver best remembered for maps and atlases of our world here. … Read the rest “Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall”
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar:
Miss June, 2010.
Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows it all. Eizo is a German medical imaging… Read the rest “Take it ALL off.”
… Read the rest “Science Art: “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” by Walt Whitman.”WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I,
… Read the rest “Science Art: Barnard’s Star, by Kate Horowitz.”after Ann Druyan
I send for you my heartbeat,
the rhythms of my latest dream.
You are just now finding the frozen clicks
of muscles, cooling like just-parked cars.
Through endless fields
This video is from Essential Cell Biology, 3rd Edition by Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff and Roberts (and apparently not from Tokyo Institute of Technology as credited elsewhere).… Read the rest “Science Art: ATP Synthase, Essential Cell Biology.”
More. They made more.
Yes.
Information here.… Read the rest ““The Poetry of Reality” by Symphony of Science.”
This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of fresh water from here – from cypress… Read the rest “Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000”
What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:
This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”
Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.
As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”
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