notes on motion

- 2019 -

plaster, pigments

approximately 52 x 39 x 10 cm and 33,5 x 42,5 x 10 cm

notes on motion #1 (do1a, folio 81r)

photography: Wytske van Keulen

The shapes are based on sketches Galileo Galilei made, in his 'Notes on motion', a collection of loose sheets full of drawings, calculations, short texts, and other representations of movement. The notes were taken from around the year 1600 until 1638, and were gathered in the manuscript Ms. Gal. 72, which can be found in the Biblioteca Nationale in Florence, and is since recently also available as a hypertext.

(You can find the electronic edition here: http://www.imss.fi.it/ms72/index.html)