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Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 07:49:48 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

For #SciArtSeptember prompt orphan, French mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing the greenhouse effect as early as 1824.
Being an orphaned commoner he could not seek a army commission in the scientific corps but took a military lectureship in #math. 🧵#printmaking #sciart #histsci
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1. My linocut print on 11”x14” white washi paper had one large section of a circle and several varied smaller overlapping circles in tints and shades of pale orange to pale golden yellow-orange. Fourier is printed in blue ink on top of these orange circles and dressed in 18th century garb. A red sinusoidal function is printed on top such that his head finds within a crest and the throughs to either side frame him. There’s are smaller sinusoids in green, pale blue and yellow on either side of his neck. The sum of these functions frames him in a purple line.
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