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This wooden bridge connects the two parts of Queens' college in Cambridge. This bridge was built in 1906, replacing an earlier bridge from 1749 (which had seen repairs in 1866). But the later version kept the original design (designed by William Etheridge and built by James Essex the Younger), using straight timber but at the same time creating the allusion of an arch.
The rather unusual design of the bridge has given it its current popular name of the Mathematical Bridge - but as Queens' college themselves point out on their website: "There is no such thing as an “official name” for the bridge. It has never been named." In the 18th century it was known as “Essex’s Bridge”, it was later also known as “Newton’s Bridge” because it was erroneously believed he had designed the it. The bridge was sometimes called the Mathematical Bridge from 1803 onwards - but there was also another Cambridge bridge known by that name. But the bridge is also known as the "Queens' bridge" - the above mentioned website calls it both the Mathematical and Queens' bridge.
If you are really in to bridges I must recommend the college web-page on the subject, it is extensive and very informative.
The Penrose Paving is constructed from just two different diamond-shaped granite tiles, each adorned identically with stainless steel circular arcs. There are various ways of covering the infinite plane with them, matching the arcs. But every such pattern is non-repetitive and contains infinitely many exact copies of what you see before you.
Mathematical Institute, Oxford
The Mathematical Bridge, also known as Newton's bridge, Queen's College Cambridge UK. It looks like an arch but is made of straight timbers.
My son Tobias and I in the summer of 1983 in Bayreuth. He is now a doctor of natural sciences (mathematics).
Thank You Deep Dream Generator. Yes I was a math nerd back in the days. I hope I don't bore you with this series.
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The bridge was designed by William Etheridge, and built by James Essex in 1749. It has been rebuilt on two occasions, in 1866 and in 1905, but has kept the same overall design. Although it appears to be an arch, it is composed entirely of straight timbers[4] built to an unusually sophisticated engineering design, hence the name.
The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden footbridge in the southwest of central Cambridge. It bridges the River Cam and joins two parts of Queens' College.
This image is part of my series Juxtaposition.
Juxtaposition places two or more things side by side to elicit a response within the audience's mind.
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The quintessential English summer afternoon punting on the Cam…
All you need, really, is some tea served in a porcelain cup accompanying a jam-filled scone to complete the picture.
The punts (flat-bottomed boats that are poled along by intrepid punters) only really work in slow-moving water that’s no deeper than the pole. This is the Cam river in Cambridge which is deep and slow here as it ambles across a plain only a few feet above sea level.
On a fine afternoon, it’s fun to watch the stories unfold as the boats, often hired by hapless tourists, wander in every direction but the one intended. Some of the punts are professionally propelled tours for tourists. The rest are crewed by amateurs or students. Chaos ensues.
Almost as funny, though, are the embroidered stories the tour guides regale to their bemused passengers who are often foreigners on day trips from London. I remember hearing one anecdote, delivered totally deadpan, recounting tourist fatalities at the beaks of the local bellicose swans… (It is, of course, the piranhas that the tourists need to be wary of - that's why the punters use metal poles, so that they are never stranded up a creek without a pole :) ).
This is an image taken last year (though processed today for Smile on Saturday) of the Mathematical Bridge which joins two parts of Queen’s College. It was originally built in 1749 and is of a very elegant, technical, engineering design. The bridge is made from solely straight timbers that are arranged so that, in use, no element has lateral forces applied to it. The bridge has its own Wikipedia entry.
I love the way there are stories in this picture - the oblivious tour boat in front with the guide in full orator mode, the punt hirer who appears to be trying to punt along the wall on the right to the alarm of his passengers, and the canoeist desperately trying to plot a safe course through the chaos… and the rest of passengers just letting the world drift idly by…
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. Currently, shots from my cellphone and digital AI artwork fulfill that purpose, at least for the time being.
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The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden bridge across the River Cam, between two parts of Queens' College, Cambridge. Its official name is simply the Wooden Bridge.
The bridge was designed by William Etheridge, and built by James Essex in 1749. It has been rebuilt on two occasions, in 1866 and in 1905, but has kept the same overall design.
The original "mathematical bridge" was another bridge of the same design, also designed by James Essex, crossing the Cam between Trinity and Trinity Hall, where Garret Hostel bridge now stands.
This planet seems good. One species seem to be so populous they have infiltrated every continent. They do have some rudimentary language skills but their mathematic ability is so basic they would never be considered an intelligent species. Atmosphere is very similar to ours with minimal terra and bioforming needed making it cheap to colonize.
The fingers quickly tapped the device sending a communication to corporate headquarters that they could apply to the commission to colonize earth with a high degree of probability of being approved.
Within a decade the ships started arriving. Humans objected to being colonized and threw every nuclear weapon they could scrap up. The colonizers retreated back to orbit, baffled by a species intelligent enough to create a bomb that could destroy the atmosphere and stupid enough to deploy it. The colonizers requested equipment to cleanse the atmosphere which was an extra expense. By the time they received approval and the equipment, all life forms on earth were dead except for cockroaches.
The colony shipped in fauna and flora from their original planet. It was much better really. Normally it was very difficult to get permission to make a planet exactly like home. There were groups that fought for planetary diversity but really it wasn't the colonizers' fault the original species killed themselves and almost everything else.
No one was happy about the cockroaches tho. Not even the groups for planetary diversity as cockroaches spread quickly across the galaxies once a few managed to get aboard ships. Major funding was approved to eradicate them. Nothing worked. The cockroaches kept surviving and coming back. Very irritating.
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Note: I added texture and the aqua lighting on the right through Photoshop. For the texture, I used NightCafe to create an image with two planets on one layer and then used the SoftLight filter in PS at 40% opacity. The aqua lighting I brushed two circles of aqua, then Guassian Filter to spread them out, then Vivid Light filters at differing opacity for each circle.
This is my original raw picture from SL
A oft shot image of the Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge. Nothing original here, but why not, like thousands of other photographers!
“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe” - Galileo Galilei / "Die Mathematik ist das Alphabet, mit dem Gott die Welt geschrieben hat." - Galileo Galilei
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The bridge was designed in 1748 by William Etheridge (1709–76), and was built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–84). It has subsequently been repaired in 1866 and rebuilt to the same design in 1905.
The myth that the bridge was originally built without fastenings at the joints, but could not be rebuilt successfully without introducing fastenings at the joints, might owe its origin to a change in the nature of the fastenings during the 1905 rebuilding.
Although it appears to be an arch, it is composed entirely of straight timbers built to an unusually sophisticated engineering design, hence the name. A replica of the bridge was built in 1923 near the Iffley Lock in Oxford.
Sited next to Queens College, this wooden bridge over the River Cam was originally built in 1749, and was rebuilt in 1905 to the same design. It is an example of a voussoir arch bridge.
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At Queens' College, Cambridge.
According to Wikipedia:
"Popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students or fellows attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together" (and had to use bolts).
However, "this story is false: the bridge was built of oak in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–1784) to the design of the master carpenter William Etheridge (1709–1776), 22 years after Newton died."
The riverside building to the right dates to around 1460.
Read all about the fascinating design/history of this bridge, first built in 1749...here:
www.queens.cam.ac.uk/visiting-the-college/history/college...
The riverside building on the right centre dates to around 1460, and is the oldest building in Cambridge by the River Cam.
Inside the Mathematics Institute at Oxford. We were privileged to be given a tour of this extraordinary building. Very Escher like in it's communications corridors - except they all go somewhere! Full of light which is channelled to the different floors via glass crystal shaped structures which give fabulous reflections. It is an amazing structure. What a place for some of the best brains to flourish!!!