Natural wonders, natural disasters, technological leaps, and environmental portents. In conjunction with this year’s Bay Area Science Festival (October 25 through November 2), the BAMPFA art study centers present a special Five Tables viewing of art with a scientific bent. Works on view include: a barnacle-encrusted tea bowl from a 500-year-old Vietnamese shipwreck; Kobayashi Kiyochika’s 1883 woodblock print The Great Earthquake at Momoyama Palace in Fushimi (the destructive earthquake depicted occurred in 1596); the unique refractive “fingerprint” of a camera lens placed on a scanner in Sheila Pinkel’s LS9; the former magnificence of the Mer de Glace and Rhone glaciers in nineteenth-century photographs by Charles Soulier and Schroeder & Co.; and more!