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.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
SONG: “Cluster Anatomy”. (I made an .ogg version, too.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ within the heart… Read the rest “SONG: Cluster Anatomy”
A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea of organ systems from, really. Trying … Read the rest “Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696”
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This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done upward or downward from between the ribs beside the sternum.… Read the rest “Science Art: Heart normal parasternal long axis echocardiography view by Patrick J. Lynch”
Science Daily reveals the existence of olfactory receptors – the nerves that give us a sense of smell – located on our tongues:
… Read the rest “Your tongue can smell.”“Our research may help explain how odor
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings.
This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, which was the book of the month at the Glasgow University… Read the rest “Science Art: Ossicula Organi Auditus Diversorium Animalium (Aural-Organ Bones of Diverse Animals), by Athanasius Kircher”
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Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896.
From the “Early… Read the rest “Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.”
Nature takes a closer look the way different physical systems connection – the way the brain, the muscles, the blood vessels relate to one another – by gazing into the hardened,… Read the rest “Invisible mice reveal how bodies are put together – at remarkably tiny levels.”
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane:
… Read the rest “Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.”In mice, inflammatory immune cells use these previously hidden channels
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.
Ah, tradition.
Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more on the top of its skull:
… Read the rest “Extinct lizard had four eyes.”S. ensidens‘
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:
… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation
Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling.
Maybe not the source, but the seat.
From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849”
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