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 The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation by … Read the rest “Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.”
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 you know if you’re slouching? Well, here’s how,… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.”
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.”
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 might fly in the face of expectations but The Quietus has an interview… Read the rest “Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science.”
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 of the back cover of The Mind, from the LIFE Science Library published by Time-Life… Read the rest “Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.”
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 in the October 1964 issue… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.”
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 book about birds, oddly enough: The fundus oculi of birds, especially… Read the rest “Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.”
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, all kinds of eyes. The book … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.”
This diagram came from an article called “Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery” by John C. Ruddock, a Naval Reserve Medical Corps commander, and Charles C. Stehly, a US… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.”
This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.
From the NIH Image Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”This image shows micro computed tomograophy
This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog.
“Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part of the spinal column. The main … Read the rest “Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906”
This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like a simple drawing of a heart, a Valentines heart, with wings.… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )”
As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and can barely breathe, … Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013”
An inner ear, dear, from The human body; an account of its structure and activities and the conditions of its healthy working, by the Martins: H. Newell and Ernest Gale. … Read the rest “Science Art: A section through the cochlea in the line of its axis, 1910.”
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A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian.
The thinking part.
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