Vintage Books
Believe it or not, there was a time when, instead of photographs, scientists made detailed drawings documenting the natural world. Ernst Haeckel was one such scientist/artist. Here is a collection of some of his drawings. I think they are pretty amazing!
Not all of the illustrations are in black and white or monochrome. Some are in color and very beautiful. You can find a large collection over on More Cool Pictures, and also over at Mandala Madness.
I believe they were originally published in this book:
This is a sampling of an old old mathematics book, not sure when it was published, or what the name of it is. I looked for copies the whole thing, but these were the only images I could find. As you can see this was back in the day when multiplication tables were memorized.
Here’s a page from a similar but different book. This one is in color, and has decorative borders. Notice the hand sewn binding. Very cool.
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Know Your Ladybirds
This cool infographic gives an image and descriptio...
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Homocentric Spheres
What follows is a cool explanation of what Eudoxus and...
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How To Set Ice On Fire
Have you ever wondered whether you could set ice on f...
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Frozen Smoke?
Aerogel is made from Silicon Dioxide, the same mate...
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A Hierarchy Of Needs
Here we have a series of pictographs of the hierarc...
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Fahrenheit vs Celsius vs Kelvin
For those of us with inquiring minds, here is a ver...
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Old Style Math Lessons
This is a sampling of an old old mathematics book...
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Game of Thrones ~ A to Z
A is for Arya, lethal and small
B is for Bran. Thi...
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The Turtle
The Turtle
A story by John Steinbeck
The concrete...
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Lightning Fast
Count the seconds between lightning flashes and thund...
Because we like to look at the numbers!