incertae sedis {art & pics by @benteh}
collecting examples of visual density and complexity
drosophila
Too good: this image represents the total view of modern biology (ca. 1989) including a model organism (Drosophila), cells (the photoreceptor), molecules (visual pigments; and the membrane protein rhodopsin in its native environment) and recombinant DNA technology (the expression vector). It was painted by Ruben Di Anda, a San Diego artist, based on a design by David Meyer.drosophila
crayola history
crayola genealogy. they experimented with a taxonomy/family tree, and several representation, see examples herecrayola history
space debris
a map of all the debris and rubbish that orbits the earth. there is a toothbrush there somewhere.space debris
fish
Markus-Elierzer Bloch, Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Poissonsfish
body mass, brain mass
from a scatterplot to "let the species speak for themselves". But what IS the thing with that elephant...- and why is there a centauri in the plot...?body mass, brain mass
the table of casualties
the table of casualties - John Graunt 1662
(some bizarre reasons for deaths here)
the table of casualties
galileo
Galileo Galilei, sidereus nuncius, 1610
Oculata certitudine - visual certainty.
Galileo saw the stars of the Pleiades, the seven sisters. a renaissance attitude of seeing instead of discussing or blind faith in the church.
galileo
napoleon
"a figurative map of the successive losses in men of the French army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813"
the map has six variables:
size of army (men live/dead)
location, latlong
direction
temperature
dates
..what is missing, though, is causation...
Napoleon started out with almost half a million soldiers, and returned with 10.000
