The great photographer Berenice Abbott, known for her pictures of New York cityscapes, was also a fan of science. Indeed she believed that photography had a special role to play in promoting science: itself at once science and art, it's the perfect intermediary. I reckon she's right. The photo at right confirms what I know but find I still intuitively refuse to believe - that gravity pulls no more strongly on a large object than on a small one. The witty picture below of a ball shot straight up from a moving toy train shows that the arc of its movement is composed in part of the vectors of an uninterrupted horizontal movement parallel to the train. The other photos - most taken in the lte 1950s at MIT, though she started the science project while directing the photography program at the New School in the 1930s - are less didactic but no less beautiful.
From Berenice Abbott, 2 vols. (Göttingen: Seidl, 2008)1:247, 253, 237, 243, 223, 221 and (below) 209
