I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”
Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome.
found via Woolgathersome.
Hey, look! PopSci just put 137 years of back issues on the internet for free. Science-aesthetic treasure!
They’re at Google Books, from whence this striking… Read the rest “Science Art: “Rocket Ride Is New Planetarium Exhibit,” Popular Science Monthly, April 1938”
If you’re one of history’s greatest electrical inventors, it is only suitable to have stationery that’s equal to your stature.
The central image is of the unfinished… Read the rest “Science Art: Nikola Tesla’s Letterhead”
This is the plant that produces those memory-enhancing extracts you see in the health food aisle of the drug store – the one that long-lived Chinese monks reputedly tended for thousands… Read the rest “Science Art: Gingko bilobe, Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, 1886 – 1891”
Another William Miller illustration – this time, a simple flower study in color.
Odd how spending a few moments looking at this Erigeron alpinum leaves me feeling just as mortal as… Read the rest “Science Art: (Loddiges 590) Erigeron alpinum by W. Miller”
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog.
That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person who appears to do something called Astropoetry… Read the rest “Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.”
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake Powell, formed by the damming of a river,… Read the rest “Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia”
This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles like these… Read the rest “Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924”
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on the mighty Yangtse, boat-dwellers put rings around… Read the rest “Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.”
I found this poem among three books of scientific poetry reviewed in Science Magazine, 2 October 2009. It’s from Darwin: A Life in Poems
by Ruth Padel, ISBN 9780701183851. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.”
These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. The first idea of the fetal position… Read the rest “Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.”
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”
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