Science Art: Panties with uterus print by KnickerRocker (Nichola).
From Etsy. Scientific illustration has profound effects on some people. It surfaces in the unlikeliest places. The same lingerie-maker has some rather comely pelvis print […]
anatomy
Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
Science Art: Hearts and Lungs by Juan de Valverde, 1598
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Plan for the Muscles of the Eye by John Bell, 1810
A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, […]
Pitchers tell evolution’s story
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings: “Throwing projectiles probably enabled our ancestors […]
Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.
Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea: The new layer has been […]
Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what […]
Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see. This image, of […]
The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk: he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system […]
Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*. This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in […]
Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839
Things will get better. This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
Science Art: Dissection of it all by D.E. Eastman
Click to embiggen. A portrait of a tattoo of an anatomical engraving, each of which is beautiful enough on its own…. From D.E. Eastman, via […]
Science Art: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.
Click to embiggen From the tumblog bequietyellingcat: museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. […]
Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898
This is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, […]