Science Art: Fractals.
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
Science Art
Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..
This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke called it “radiant matter”… Read the rest “Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..”
Science Art: “Three Kinds of Ears” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander
This was what space was going to be in 1988. All acrylic paints and spindly legs.
You can read more about the Autonomous Lander of Project Pathfinder at NASA’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander”
Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.
Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void.
You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early … Read the rest “Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492”
Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.
On Mars, the polar ice caps grow and shrink with the seasons, just like on Earth.
But unlike Earth, the Martian ice cap is made of CO2.
Image from the Electron Microscopy … Read the rest “Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.”
Science Art: Afrikanska kulturföremål_2, Nordisk familjebok
Norwegian encyclopedists behold African artifacts.
Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.
Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.”
And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, … Read the rest “Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.”
Science Art: Allosaurus, by Charles R. Knight
Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even.
He brought dinosaurs (and other things) to life.
Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa.
For Foxing Day.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here… Read the rest “Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International”
Future By Colani.
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future.
A Colani-designed semi-trailer.
From steam trains to flying boats.
Spacecraft like ginger flowers and orange… Read the rest “Future By Colani.”
Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.
This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing.
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Science Art: “Bacteria” The New Students Reference Work
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.