Dr Ele Willoughbyさんのイラストまとめ

Here’s my #linocut of #mathematician & #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) for the #printerSolstice prompt “form.” We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, & his 3 laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he

A porcelain crab #linocut for #InverteFest Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each print is 8” by 8” and printed by hand. Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. They have flattened

Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar is Wiwaxia! This is a handprinted #linocut Wiwaxia, a half billion year old soft-bodied animal covered in scales & spines. These animals lived in the early and middle Cambrian period & fossils are found worldwide, including in Canada's Burgess Shale.

Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is a linocut inspired by the way the exuberant lines & shapes of Bauhaus paintings, like those of Kandinsky, reminded me Feynman diagrams showing particle reactions on the quantum scale, virtual particles & anti-particles popping out of the vacuum on

#ArtAdventCalendar day 14 is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong, Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’. Here, this irrepressible character is helping himself to the Peaches of Immortality.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest and most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research

#artAdventCalendar day 9 -Happy birthday to mathematician & computer scientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English & did foundational work on COBOL. #histstm

For Day 8 of #artAdventCalendar this is a hard carved & printed Lino block print with collaged Japanese washi papers of a clump of black-eyed susans with a cone flower (Echinacea) & a monarch butterfly. These beautiful wildflowers are garden favourites popular with pollinators.

Happy birthday to Indian #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), with plants she studied: sugarcane, magnolia & eggplant.

A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & 1st woman in

Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723), the Dutch scientist & progenitor of #microbiology known for his improvements to microscope tech. He was a draper in Delft, then a politician with an interest in lensmaking. Using his handmade microscopes, he was 1st to