Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.
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 […]
Science Art
Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912
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 […]
Science Art: Detaching Roll Mechanism, 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 […]
Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.
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” […]
Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece.
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 […]
Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012.
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 […]
Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.
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, […]
Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon’s Orbit – Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898
This is an illustration — two illustrations, actually — from A New Astronomy for Beginners by David P. Todd. It’s actually an illustration of a […]
Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.
Off we go…. 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 […]
Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018
They do look a little like meerkats, these big African satellite dishes. This is a photo from the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) / South […]
Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.
I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner […]
Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady. The cartoon couple are from an ad […]
Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, […]
Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, […]
Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs. At […]