Science Art: “Ericsson Taxen ritn,” Nordisk familjebok
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art
Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
Science Art: Butterfly Tongue
Click to embiggen vastly Is it smiling at you? From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora
Click to embiggen An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. […]
Science Art: Coelastrum by Andrews
Simon Andrews took this microscopic photograph of a cell cluster of coelastrum algae and submitted it to Wikimedia Commons, where I found it.
Science Art: “Dirigible Balloon” 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: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok
A trepanned skull, from Nordisk Familjebok Encyclopedia, found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons. Trepanation is a bit of an archaeological mystery, apparently […]
Science Art: Success!
Click to embiggen. The Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008, and promptly took a picture of its own leg. It’s a tradition. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, […]
Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.
Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia’s “Fourth Dimension” article, where it illustrates a four-dimensional object rotating on one axis. The graphic was orginally uploaded by Jason Hise, […]
Science Art: “Rosetta Stone”
There it is – the key that unlocked ancient Egypt. One message in three alphabets. From the Library of Christian Theological Seminary, found on Wikimedia […]
Science Art: “Acherontia atropos,” Nordisk familjebok
The Death’s Head Hawkmoth. There’s a more recent photograph of one here; the first time I remember learning this beauty’s name was in a brilliantly […]
Science Art: Sixteen Black Dot Tentacles by Ernst Haeckel
Sixteen Black Dot Tentacles by Ernst Haeckel. This may look like an abstract or a mathematical exercise; it’s not. It’s an illustration of a microscopic […]
Science Art: Venus in Old China
Astronomical charts from Gujin Tushu Jicheng, a Qing dynasty Chinese encyclopedia.
Science Art: “Asian Types,” The New Students Reference Work (1914)
Click to embiggen A dicey bit of racial taxonomy from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton […]
Science Art: Doppler Effect
Diagram from Wikimedia Commons. It’s like op art.