Painting - Law of Orbiting Velocities
Painting - Law of Orbiting Velocities
- Description
- This creation, similar to works #22 (1979.1093.16) and #76 (1979.1093.50), is a further example of Crockett Johnson's work relating to Kepler's first two laws of planetary motion. The ellipse represents the path of a planet and the white sections represent equal areas swept out in equal times. This work is a silk screen on paper. It is number 99 in the series, and is signed in the right corner: Crockett Johnson (/) 67. It draws on a figure from The World of Mathematics by James R. Newman.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- painting
- date made
- 1967
- referenced
- Kepler, Johannes
- painter
- Johnson, Crockett
- Physical Description
- cardboard (substrate material)
- wood (frame material)
- Measurements
- overall: 53.3 cm x 63.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 21 in x 25 in x 1 3/8 in
- ID Number
- 1979.1093.66
- catalog number
- 1979.1093.66
- accession number
- 1979.1093
- Credit Line
- Ruth Krauss in memory of Crockett Johnson
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Art
- Crockett Johnson
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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