Science Art

A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch.

Happy anniversary, outer space.

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Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as well as… Read the rest “Science Art: Temporary Chimneys and Fire Fountains, Constance Gordon-Cumming, c.1880”

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747.

Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite the science… Read the rest “Science Art: Albinus & Wandelaar”

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Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s, a time when the Dutch were using maps like never before.

Luckily for us, he took some time out from his charting… Read the rest “Science Art: Planisphæri cœleste, by Frederik de Wit, 17th century”

From NASA’s collection of 1970s space colony art. There are much larger versions available in their archive.

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Bonus link: the Living Room of the Future, 1979.

from Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Picture Archives, (via Barbelith).

Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in 1552.

from the National… Read the rest “Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…”

Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves.

I quite like the octopus….

from The Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881.

Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel.

More incredible illustrations by him here.