Making progress on my portrait of Qing Dynasty astronomer, mathematician and poet Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt multiplication.
Since my son’s been sick this week, I have been looking after him and keeping him company and trying to work in his room. I managed to carve or work at the computer but I definitely can’t print in there or go spend a few hours in my studio. So there’s been less progress and more kaiju than usual. My final print for #PrinterSolstice2526 will take me a bit longer but hopefully I will get a chance to finish it soon.
Been looking after my sick kiddo this week, but when I can, I am making some progress on the 12th & final #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: multiplication.
I’m making a #linocut portrait Qing Dynasty polymath Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) known for her books on astronomy, her poetry, meteorology & mathematics. She helped dispel some misconceptions about eclipses, the shape of the Earth & gravity, living at a time when China was isolated from scholarship in the West, 🧵
For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt angle, my #linocut of astronomer Elisabeth Koopmann-Hevelius (1647-1693) using a brass sextant to make astronomical observations & some of the new constellations her husband Johannes Hevelius named based on their observations, & she published in Prodromus Astronomiae ('Elements of Astronomy'), in 1690, after he had died. I am highlighting the Lynx constellation, 🧵1/
For #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction my #linocut portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow medical physicist & Nobel laureate for the radioimmunoassay method for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood.
Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major & graduated with honours by 19. WWII brought the chance for grad school for woman. 🧵
First layer down of my portrait of medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt fraction
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Working on the next print for the #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow the medical physicist who taught us how to measure substances which were minute fractions of our blood when she, and her medical doctor research partner Solomon Berson, invented the radioimmunoassay. 🧵
For the #printerSolstice2526 prompt volume: my #linocut of autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.
Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math 🧵
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Ele Willoughby, PhD