#1671

Chameleon and its dissection.

The Natural History of Animals, Containing the Anatomical Description of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. 1702.

Translation of the original French edition published in 1671.

Sir Isaac Newton's reflective telescope, ca. 1671

*The telescope in the picture is a replica of the original Newtonian (though, in this case, it's a replica made by Sir Isaac Newton himself). The whereabouts of the first one he built is unknown.

The late, great Dave Trott made a couple of videos about replicas of the original Newtonian telescope:

Zero from Drakengard 3

"I'm always a bit torn with Nier and Drakengard because there are some legitimately good designs, but a lot of them are just kind of stupidly sexualized. I reaaaaally like the patterning in Zero's clothing though, and her armored arm/prosthesis has one of the coolest designs ever (even if it's not the easiest to see in her main reference)"

Newton-Raphson Method of Sine in Complex Plane ⋈

Infinite Self-Similar Fractal, Convergent Sine Iterative

Rx peek a boo (some nudity tumblr based)

tumblr marilyn photographed by bert stern in 1962!

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