Science Art: Cockpit view of the Macchi MC.200 Saetta, 2009
This image came from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force with the less-easy-to-understand name (or “designation”) “210921-F-AU145-2009.” But it’s the cockpit of an […]
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Science Art: Interacting Galaxies Arp 142 (MIRI Image), by NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.
This is a photograph of a strangely-shaped galaxy, as taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Or rather, a set of “interacting” galaxies, known collectively as […]
Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.
This is how the the US Navy tried to get recruits to stand tall during World War II, with anatomical studies of slouching. How do […]
Science Art: Hooks, Swivels, &c.
Need a lift? These are hooks designed for lifting … well, whatever you need picked up. I found them in (deep breath): The engineer’s sketch-book […]
Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773
This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of […]
Science Art: Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts, by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
I’m not sure what to make of this, other than that it’s a worm that somehow feeds on or otherwise inconveniences tigers and monkeys. So […]
Science Art: Europa Clipper, Artist’s Concept, by NASA/JPL-Caltech
This is an artist’s concept of a space probe orbiting Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter that might just hide life in the oceans miles […]
Science Art: Apparatus Arranged for Taking a Radiograph, 1894.
This illustration is from an article in Science Gossip on how to set up your own “X-Ray Outfit.” As the author, James Quick, explains: “The […]
Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 at NASM (NHQ202303280029), 2023
As the image description tells it: NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Robert Hines, right, are seen in the in the One […]
Science Art: Illustration, New Model 1806 Fiber-Optics Cathode-Ray Tube Visicorder from a Honeywell brochure, c.1973
This is a scientist operating scientific equipment, or a model posing as a scientist showing off the capabilities of a shiny new piece of informational […]
Science Art: Almeö Dog Skeleton, by Gunnar Creutz.
A prehistoric pet. This is a mesolithic dog, same dog we know today more or less, Canis lupus familiaris, but about 9,300 years old. It […]
Science Art: Sagitta atlantica and Sagitta equatoria, 1922.
These are illustrations from “Notes on Species of Sagitta Collected on a Voyage from England to Australia” by B.B. Gray, as published in The Proceedings […]
Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.
Here’s Larus argentatus, one of those wild animals that barely seems wild because it interacts with people so much. Simple line art captures a wild […]
Science Art: The Turney Vario Variable Condenser, 1913.
This is from a photographically illustrated advertisement in Hugo Gernsback’s magazine The Electrical Experimenter. The description of this item is as follows: For extreme measurements […]
Science Art: Ball-shaped blob of California black worms, 2023.
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 […]