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This book chronicles the invention of an art - and equally, the art of invention. Two men who had long been friends and scientific colleagues became close collaborators on the public announcement of the discovery of photography in 1839. At the beginning of that year, William Henry Fox Talbot had been surprised by the announcement in Paris that Louis Daguerre had invented a photographic process. His subsequent actions, and those of his rival, mirrored the competitive economic race, and the differences in support of science and art, between France and Britain. There was no technical breakthrough to account for the explosive growth of interest and activity. Both the camera and the necessary chemistry had co-existed for some time and this book addresses the question of why rather than how photography was finally invented. Why did Talbot wait so long to reveal a process that he had mastered years earlier? Why did Sir John Herschel, the pre-eminent Victorian scientist, and an accomplished artist, make such fundamental contributions to the process and yet take so few photographs himself? Who or what provided the visual training that allowed Talbot to become the first photographic artist?Larry Schaaf employs hundreds of little-studied letters, notebooks and diaries to illuminate the intellectual and artistic development and relationship of these two men. Much of the story lies in very human concerns; the weather, politics, family pressures and ill health had as much to do with developments as any scientific or artistic concerns. Both men were humanists of diverse interests, both were fellows of the Royal Society, both had strong female role models, and for both science and art were inextricably linked. The remarkable story of this invention is illustrated by more than 100 near-facsimile reproductions in colour and multi-coloured duotones of some of the earliest photographs ever made. ... Read more

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The noblest result of ages, the greatest achievement of chap. humanity, has been to found and to produce a nation. L The ancient world, with few and insignificant exceptions, only knew empires, established by arms, and maintained by force. The existence of a nation, filling the large space between obvious and well-defined frontiers, and consisting of one race, or amalgamated races, bound together by a common tongue, common interests, sympathies and habits, acknowledging the one feeling of patriotism and trusting to one government to represent and act upon the feeling-this, the state in which a society of men can attain most greatness, peace, and happiness, intellectual development and material prosperity, is a phenomenon of modern times.
Empires prevailed in antiquity, because force then dominated and formed the only principle of government or of cohesion. Mankind resembled the waves of the sea or the sands of the desert, attached to no spot, and

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THE three first lectures in the following
collection on Earthquakes and Vol-
canoes, on the Sun, and on Comets
were delivered by the Author to a vil-
lage audience, in the school-house of the parish
of Hawkhurst, in Kent, his place of residence.
They were subsequently printed as contributions
to the pages of that excellent and useful periodi-
cal, Good Words, in which they were followed
by those " On the Weather and Weather Pro-
phets," " On Celestial Measurings and Weigh-
ings," and *' On Light," the latter assuming in its
progress the dimensions of a little elementary

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CONTENTS; ?; 1 ADOUT VOLCANOS AND EARTHQUAKES!; II THE SUN,; II I ON CO:IETS, ?; tv THE WEATHER AND WEATHP,R PROPHETS,; V CELESTIAL MYASURI~GS AND WElCHINGS,; VI ON LIGHT PART I-REFLEXIO:'ll-Rl-~FRACTIONDISPRRSIO~-; COLOUR-Al!H>RPTION,; VH, ON IlGRT PART I1-THEORJF,S OF LIGHT-I~TER·; FERENCES-DIFFRACTION, ?; "Ill ON LIGHT PART IlI-DOliBL;: REFRACTIOX-·POLARIZATJON,; I''GP,; IX; 219; 268; 340; IX ON SENSORIAL VISION, ? 400; X THE YARD, THE PENDULUrJ AND THE METRE, ? 4(9; XI ON ATOl·JS A DlALOGt>'~, ? ? ? 452; xn ON THE ORIGIN OF FORCE, ? -460 XIII ON THE ADSORPTION OF LICHT BY COLOURRI> MEDIA,; VIEWED IN CONl"EXION WITH THE UNDULATORY; THEORY, 4i6; XIV O~ 'n{E ESTIMATION OF' SKILL IN TARGET-SHOOTING, 495

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Publisher: P. F. Collier amp SonPublication date: 1902Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Kapitel: John Herschel, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Gabriel Lippmann, William Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, Fred Holland Day, Humphry Davy, Louis Daguerre, Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce, Brüder Lumière, Carl August Von Steinheil, Erwin Quedenfeldt, Anna Atkins, Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin-Gorski, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Eva Watson-Schütze, Constant Puyo, Joseph Albert, John Wesley Hyatt, Thomas Wedgwood, Moritz Hermann Von Jacobi, Hannibal Goodwin, Gustave le Gray, Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, Robert Demachy, Joseph Wilson Swan, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Karl Klietsch, Heinrich Kühn, Louis Ducos Du Hauron, Richard Leach Maddox, André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Pioniere Der Fototechnik, Frederick Scott Archer, Louis-Alphonse Poitevin, Arthur Traube, Eduard Liesegang. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (March 7, 1792 - May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work. He was the son of astronomer Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and the father of 12 children. Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy. He named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus. He made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated colour blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays. Herschel was born in Slough, Berkshire, and studied shortly at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated as Senior wrangler in 1813. It was during his time as an undergraduate that he became friends with Charles Babbage and George Peacock. He took up astronomy in 1816, building a reflecting telescope with a mirror 18 inches (460 mm) in diameter and with a 20-foot (6.1 m) focal length. Between 1821 and 1823 he re-examined, with James South, the double stars catalogued by his father. For this work he was presented in 1826 with t...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: William Herschel, John Herschel, Alexander Maconochie, Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet, John Hindmarsh, George Gawler, George Brown, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Andrew Leith Hay, Love Jones-Parry, George Nayler, Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, Henry Somerset, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, George Dean Pitt, Edmund Lodge, James Freeth, Charles Stephen Gore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (15 November 1738 25 August 1822) was a British astronomer, technical expert, and a composer. Born in Hannover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hannover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19. Herschel became most famous for the discovery of the planet Uranus in addition to several of its major moons such as Titania and Oberon. He also discovered infrared radiation. Finally, Herschel is less known for the twenty-four symphonies that he composed. Herschel was born in Hanover, Electorate of Hanover one of ten children of Isaak and Anna Ilse, née Moritzen, Herschel. His father was of Jewish descent and an oboist in the Hannover Military Band. In 1755 the Hannoverian Guards regiment, in whose band Wilhelm and his brother Jakob were engaged as oboists, was ordered to England. At the time the crowns of England and Hannover were united under George II. This brief visit made an impression and the next year the brothers resigned from the Guards band and moved to London. Wilhelm, nineteen years old at this time, was a quick student of the English language. In England he went by the English rendition of his name, Frederick William Herschel. He played the cello and harpsichord in addition to the oboe and later the organ. He composed numerous musical works, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33971 ... Read more

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