Author: John William DraperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants
Author: John William DraperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A treatise on the forces which produce the organization of plants. With an appendix, containing several memoirs on capillary attraction, electricity and the chemical action of light
Author: John William DRAPER (M.D., LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills AldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Encyclopedia of Biography of New York
Author: Charles Elliott FitchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States
Author: John Howard BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...
Author: Rossiter JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Scientific Memoirs, Being Experimental Contributions to a Knowledge of Radiant Energy
Author: John William DraperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Early American Daguerreotype
Author: Sarah Kate GillespiePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034107
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.