Image, Data and Problem Credits
- Page ID
- 17468
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Images
- Close-up of the Prague astronomical clock by Fabrizio Verrecchia, from Unsplash, public domain.
- Portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller, painted in 1689. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work, retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Drawing by Robert Hooke of the cell structure of cork from two different angles, as published in his 1665 book Micrographia. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work,retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, painted in 1636, currently located at the National Maritime Museum in London, UK. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work, retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Portrait of Charles de Coulomb. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work, retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Images by Michael Maggs, Wikimedia commons, falling ball and Wikimedia commons, bouncing ball, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Image by Amber Turner, Unsplash, public domain.
- Image by GSenkow, Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Image cropped from fruit stand image by Redd Angelo, Unsplash, public domain.
- Image by Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Image of Allyson Felix at the 2012 Summer Olympics by Citizen59, Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Image of Robert Garrett throwing the discus at the 1896 Summer Olympics; picture by Albert Meyer, shared by the Bulgarian Archives State Agency (file BASA-3K-7-422-22) through Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Photograph of Emmy Noether, unknown date and photographer, obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Photograph of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, unknown date and photographer, obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Images from NASA, public domain.
- Image by Securiger, Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Image by Jayess, Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Image by Markmcgee, Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Image by Arnaud 25, Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Image from NASA’s Aqua/MODIS satellite, retreived from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Portrait of Johannes Kepler by an unknown artist, 1610. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work, retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Portrait of Leonhard Euler by Jakob Emanuel Handmann, 1753. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work (now in the Kunstmuseum Basel), retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Portrait of Christiaan Huygens by Caspar Netscher, painted in 1671, currently located at museum Boerhave in Leiden, The Netherlands. Picture is a faithful reproduction of a two dimensional public domain work, retrieved from Wikimedia commons.
- Photograph of Christian Doppler, unknown date and photographer, obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Mach’s 1888 photograph of the shockwaves created by a supersonic brass bullet. This photo was taken in Prague, using Schlieren Photography on a 5 mm-diameter negative. Obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Photograph of Ernst Mach from the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Band 40, 1902, obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Official 1921 Nobel prize photograph of Albert Einstein, obtained from Nobelprize.org, public domain.
- Photograph of Lorentz from the collection of Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, The Netherlands, obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Photograph of Minkowski from the book Raum und Zeit (Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, Leipzig, 1909), obtained from Wikimedia commons, public domain.
- Screen shots from buienradar.nl, taken on October 28, 2013.
Data
- Data from NASA planetary fact sheets at https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html.
Problems
- Problem inspired by problem 4-s1 from ‘Problems in introductory physics’ by Crowell and Shotwell, available on Light and matter, CC BY-SA 3.0.