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.
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.”
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