Plaster Peaks, Photography, and the Spread of Scientific Knowledge: The Tale of Tenerife.
Upon his return from setting up an astronomical observatory on a mountain on Tenerife, Scottish Astronomer Royal Charles Piazzi Smyth sought a photographic image to help make his Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856 more compelling to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and t...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 38; pp. 1 - 20 |
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2025
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