This is a star algae, Micrasterias truncata, as photographed very recently and uploaded to the Flickr Commons collection, “Encyclopedia of Life images.”
The description… Read the rest “Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre”
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections.
It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t believe… Read the rest “Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.”
This is an image from “the birth of photomicrography.” It’s also an image from the fondly remembered Omni magazine, an issue from 1978 which I found on archive.org. … Read the rest “Science Art: Cross Section of a Young Root, by Roman Vishniac, c. 1978.”
This is what German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze dubbed a “tiny water-bear” when he first spotted it among the animacules in the droplets of stagnant water under his … Read the rest “Science Art: Kleiner Wasserbär, 1773”
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org.
This particular one is a compound microscope. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.”
Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor.
From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.”My research is on using 3D printing to make conductive
This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally… Read the rest “Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011”
Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works:
… Read the rest “This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.”In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates a scaffold, which holds
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as seen many times its proper size under an electron microscope.
Tiny little… Read the rest “Science Art: Philips H7 headlamp . Mo-cover filament polycrystals, by Ivan.V.Nemtsev”
This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition… Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle, magnified 26 diameters, 1871.”
Can’t beat NBC’s headline for this: Insects Wear Tiny Spacesuits, for Science:
… Read the rest “Insects in tiny space suits. Real ones. In a vacuum.”Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens,
Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”
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