Illustration of Centrifugal Force
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Description:
A woman’s hand is seen with a napkin ring made to spin around the tip of the forefinger and kept in suspension by centrifugal force.
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].