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Photography and science in Victorian culture / edited by Jordan Bear.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth-century science, technology and medicine
- Nineteenth-century science, technology and medicine : sources and documents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--History--19th century.
- Photography.
- Science--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Visual perception.
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Historiography and photography.
- Art and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Art and science.
- Art and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Art and society.
- Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 345 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2026.
- Contents:
- Part 1, Vision research and the emergence of photography. Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision / Charles Wheatstone
- On the Optical Illusion of the Conversion of Cameos into Intaglios, and of Intaglios into Cameos, with an Account of other Analogous Phenomena / Sir David Brewster
- Binocular Vision / William Benjamin Carpenter
- The Eye as an Optical Instrument / Hermann von Helmholtz
- The Eye and the Camera / William Frederick Lake Price
- Visual Photography / H.S. Schell
- The Last 'Burst-Up' of an Oft-Revived Photographic Canard
- Part 2, 'The photographic eyes of science.' The Photographic Eyes of Science / Richard A. Proctor
- Astronomical Photography: A Brief Historical Review / E.E. Barnard
- Instantaneous Photography, Mathematical and Popular Including Practical Instructions on the Manipulation of the Pistolgraph / Thomas Skaife
- Jove's Autograph : How He was Induced to Write it on the Photographic Plate / W.N. Jennings
- The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Illustrated with the Zoopraxiscope / Eadweard Muybridge
- On the Medical Uses of Photography / H.G. Wright
- The Royal Society / Hugh Welch Diamond
- The Physiognomy of Insanity: No. 9, Religious Mania ; The Physiognomy of Insanity: No. 10, "Religious Mania-Convalescence / John Conolly
- Dammann's Race-Photographs / E.B. Tylor
- On a Method of Measuring the Human Form, for the Use of Students in Ethnology / J.H. Lamprey
- Composite Portraits Made by Combining those of Many Different Persons into a Single Figure / Francis Galton
- Spirit Photography, with Remarks on Fluorescence / J. Traill Taylor
- Trick Photography / Albert A. Hopkins
- Photographing the Unseen / A.A.C. Swinton
- Part 3, The Art and Science of Sight: Vision and Aesthetics at the End of the Century. Phenomena of Sight, and Art Principles Deduced Therefrom / Peter Henry Emerson
- Naturalistic Photography / Henry Peach Robinson
- Impressionism in Photography / George Davison
- Photo-Chemical Investigations and a New Method of Determination of the Sensitiveness of Photographic Plates / Ferdinand Hurter and V.C. Driffield
- The Death of Naturalistic Photography / Peter Henry Emerson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version Photography and science in Victorian culture
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781003481478 (electronic bk.)
- 1003481477 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90104464692
- 10.4324/9781003481478
- CIPO000339380
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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