Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO
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 […]
Science Art
Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770
Click to embiggen Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock […]
Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux
Click to embiggen I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 […]
Science Art: Galileo’s Sunspots, 1612
Click to embiggen. Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome. found via Woolgathersome.
Science Art: “Rocket Ride Is New Planetarium Exhibit,” Popular Science Monthly, April 1938
Click to embiggen slightly Hey, look! PopSci just put 137 years of back issues on the internet for free. Science-aesthetic treasure! They’re at Google Books, […]
Science Art: Nikola Tesla’s Letterhead
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 […]
Science Art: Gingko bilobe, Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, 1886 – 1891
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 […]
How Deep the Ocean?
Deep.
Science Art: (Loddiges 590) Erigeron alpinum by W. Miller
Another William Miller illustration – this time, a simple flower study in color. Odd how spending a few moments looking at this Erigeron alpinum leaves […]
Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
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 […]
Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake […]
Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924
Click to embiggen. 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 […]
Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on […]
Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.
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 […]