Ele Willoughby, PhDMy #linocut prints of black bear, polar bear, spirit bear (official animal of British Columbia) and giant pandas for #WorldBearDay
Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917
#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt
Happy birthday to one of greatest mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, using pictures and 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #physics #mathematics #WomenInSTEM #mastoArt
March 22 is #WorldWaterDay and an apt birthday for Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & the Saruhashi Prize for 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1842093826
#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #climateChange #linocut #mastoArt
J.I.N.Squirrel
Hand-carved and printed on handmade cotton paper. Finished with acrylic.
#originalart #blockprinting #linocut #handmadeart #squirrel #Eichhörnchen
Hand-carved and printed on handmade cotton paper. Finished with acrylic.
#originalart #blockprinting #linocut #handmadeart #squirrel #Eichhörnchen
À propos of nothing, my 8” x 10” lino block print illustrates the German fairytale Hans My Hedgehog collected by the Brothers Grimm.
I love the absurdity of a half-hedgehog man riding a rooster and playing the bagpipes.
His parents desperately wanted a child, and his father foolishly wished for “even a hedgehog”; his wife gives birth to a baby who’s hedgehog from the waist up. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1805044134
#linocut #printmaking #fairytale #illustration #HansMyHedgehog
It’s #WorldFrogDay to draw attention to the important role frogs play in ecosystems.
Linocut on gampi of a leopard frog from years ago.
Happy birthday to 🇨🇦Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for #enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme #histochemistry, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first #electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!
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My final #PrinterSolstice2526 #linocut for the prompt multiplication: astronomer, mathematician, meteorologist & poet Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797), who left her impact on Qing era China during her short life. Raised by her father & grandparents, her ancestral home was in Anhui province. Her grandfather, Wang Zhefu, an avid reader & collector of books, was governor of Fengcheng County & the Xuanhua District. Her father, Wang Xichen wrote a 4-volume Collection of Medical Prescriptions. 🧵1/
Making progress on my portrait of Qing Dynasty astronomer, mathematician and poet Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt multiplication.
