Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, […]
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Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from […]
SONG: Good People Grow
SONG: “Good People Grow” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to […]
Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of […]
Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857
Click to embiggen As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge […]
Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.
Click to embiggen From the USGS: This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from […]
Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century
Click to embiggen The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and […]
SONG: Facing North
SONG: “Facing North” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 18 Mar 2019, “People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest,” as used in […]
The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of […]
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Click to embiggen Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon. This image is part of a page of “Cosmic […]
Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017
Click to embiggen The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat: In late […]
Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8
Click to embiggen vastly The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 […]
Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920
Click to embiggen An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards. From The preparation of illustrations for reports […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]