Illustration of Centrifugal Force

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Artist

Name:: Poyet, Louis
Dates:: 1846-1913
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Poyet, Louis
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les récréations scientifiques
Author:: Tissandier, Gaston
Publisher:: Paris: G. Masson, n.d. [1884]

Description:

A woman's hand is seen with a napkin ring spinning around the tip of her forefinger and kept in suspension by the centrifugal force generated by her circular hand movement.

The caption reads in the original French: Rond de serviette soulevé par un rapide mouvement de rotation. — Force centrifuge et résistance de frottement.

Caption taken from the English edition titled Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d. [ca. 1882].

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