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 panties…… Read the rest “Science Art: Panties with uterus print by KnickerRocker (Nichola).”
A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, but were lost until 1714. In … Read the rest “Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.”
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight.
From Wikimedia Commons.
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea:
… Read the rest “Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.”The new layer has been dubbed the Dua’s Layer after the
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 could have been looking back at him.
The … Read the rest “Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova”
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 aortal… Read the rest “Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.”
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk:
… Read the rest “The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.”he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system that, in combination
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 the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
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 … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”
An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.
Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some… Read the rest “Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon”
A portrait of a tattoo of an anatomical engraving, each of which is beautiful enough on its own….
From D.E. Eastman, via Scientific Illustration.
From the tumblog bequietyellingcat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.”museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. so now i’m pretending
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, meaning it’s probably best if we don’t… Read the rest “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”
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