Katerina Orlikova’s animal skeleton calligrams, via bioephemera.

Illustration of magnetism by Caleb Charland, via today and tomorrow. The rest of Caleb’s collection, “Demonstrations,” is equally awesome, so check it out.

Poster by Claude Kuhn from the Swiss Posters Collection; via ephemera assemblyman.

Via thedailywhat:

Acid Trip of the Day: Nine drawings by an unknown artist taking part in a government-sponsored LSD experiment in the late 1950s.

The subject was asked to draw a portrait of his attending doctor at various intervals throughout the experiment.

The fifth drawing, completed two-and-a-half hours after the initial dose of LSD 25 was administered, was accompanied by the following observation:

Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.

Compare with his final statement, five-and-a-half hours later, following portrait #9:

I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now.

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“Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)” by Fritz Kahn, 1926; via { feuilleton }.

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Virus models sculpted from glass by Luke Jerram - this is an E. coli bacterium.

Via Bioephemera, but more at the Guardian.

Simone Koenig bobbin-laced the sagittal view of her husband’s brain from his MRI. Via Street Anatomy.

Knit dissected frog by Crafty Hedgehog, via Street Anatomy.

CH’s previous dissection here; related.

Via poortaste, via msbojangles.

Via Dark Roasted Blend.

Via hrrrthrrr:

You’ve seen their neighborhood prints, now check out Ork’s print of the heart.

Signs of Character, a phrenology chart drawn and published by R. Degranza Pease, M.D., 1843. Via BibliOdyssey.

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From Dan Beckemeyer’s collection Systems: “Illustrated skeletal system with stitched cardiovascular system and hand-felted muscle mass all on hand-made abaca paper.” Via Street Anatomy.

By Derya Öztür, via Street Anatomy.

Eclipses luminarium summa fide et accurata diligentia supputatae, ac figuris coloribusque suis artificiose depictae, quarum rationes ab anno domini 1554. usque in annum domini 1600. se extendunt et ad meridianum Viennae Austriae referuntur by Cyprian Leowitz.

As my Latin is seriously poor these days, I’ll use BibliOdyssey’s translation so as to not embarrass myself: Accurate coloured depictions of solar and lunar eclipses covering the years 1554 to 1600 with Vienna, Austria as the point of reference.

Peacay at BibliOdyssey: “The only information I can glean from the web suggests that Leowitz was a Bohemian astrologer and a contemporary of Nostradamus. Most (very very brief) citations mention that his notoriety centres on his having predicted that the world would end in 1584. I think that assertion was made in 1568 and a comment at one site opined that he was hedging his bets by publishing luna/solar data for the time subsequent to the predicted apocalypse (my first thought here is that the author is conflating two publications of Leowitz from different times.)”

More here.