Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing. I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons. […]
Biomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek. The description, translated from Czech, reads: “Four acrobats, chosen coordinate system, local center of gravity and […]
From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org. This is a chart of the human […]
When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was […]
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert, […]
Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a […]
This is a mudskipper who is being drawn here solely for the qualities of its bulbous, beautiful eyes. The illustration is from page 453 of […]
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 […]
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” […]
Well, if a microphone can act as a speaker (which it can, and vice versa), then why can’t an ear act as a megaphone? It […]
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 […]
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 […]
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, […]
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