This is a biological photo that is also a mathematical photo. It’s a ball of worms that Georgia Tech researchers were studying, because, as it says on the National Science Foundation… Read the rest “Science Art: Ball-shaped blob of California black worms, 2023.”
This is a glowing hunk of rock, lit from within.
The rock was found in the Kelly Mine in Magadela, New Mexico. Smithsonite is a form of zinc carbonate, or zinc spar, that’s formed a large… Read the rest “Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.”
Some rockets are bigger than others.
I think this illustration (which I found here, on Wikimedia Commons) is maybe a better depiction of how space science itself has changed trajectory … Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn V-Shuttle-Ares IV comparison, by Bchan.”
This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature… Read the rest “Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.”
Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up in “New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.”
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of a sort that can be laid… Read the rest “Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919”
This is Saturn, as photographed (yes, it’s a composite photo, not a drawing) by Cassini as it passed in front of the Sun. Our Earth is visible, barely, if you zoom in and look “above… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.”
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air temperature are nothing… Read the rest “Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912”
This is a device from Cotton Card-Room Machinery, a catalog published by Whitlin Machine Works.
I can’t say much about how it works because I’ve never been in a cotton card-room.… Read the rest “Science Art: Detaching Roll Mechanism, 1912.”
This is the listening part, the twisting bits of the inner ear. It really does look like a mollusk, doesn’t it? (“Cochlea” literally means “snail” in Greek.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.”
This is a photo taken in 2015 by Wikimedia Commons user Jebulon, of a helmet made for a Mycenaean warrior between 3.300 and 3,400 years ago. It’s a display at the National Archaeological… Read the rest “Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece.”
This is a likeness of the southern bit of South America as it was near the end of the Cretaceous, right before the event that drove the dinosaurs to extinction. The Maastrichtian Age was a geologic… Read the rest “Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012.”
That is a kitten. A panther kitten. Offspring of the catamount. Doesn’t look all that happy to have its picture engraved.
On a digital device, there’s no telling how large this… Read the rest “Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.”
This is an illustration — two illustrations, actually — from A New Astronomy for Beginners by David P. Todd. It’s actually an illustration of a demonstration, with … Read the rest “Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon’s Orbit – Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898”
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Here’s some cutting-edge technology from 1957 which, frankly, is still pretty impressive. The Bell Labs X-2 is a rocket-plane that flew humans up into the upper… Read the rest “Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.”
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