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Astronomy

 

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Contents
Introduction
1Introduction to astronomy
2Rapid progress during the nineteenth century in astronomical photography
Telescopes and astronomical instruments
3Introduction to telescopes
4Mary Rosse: Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland (ca. 1857)
5Thomas Child: China: Pekin: Observatory (ca. 1875-1880)
Early astronomical photography
6J.A. Whipple: Daguerreotypes of the Sun and Moon (1852)
7Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment (1857)
8Warren De la Rue: The Moon
9Lewis M. Rutherfurd: Astronomy
10Charles Le Morvan: Carte photographique de la lune
11Ernest Mouchez: La Photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris et la Carte du Ciel (1887)
12Max Wolf and Joh. Palisa: Photographische Sternkarten (ca 1901-1904)
Tranisit of Venus
13Transit of Venus
14William de Wiveleslie Abney: Transit of Venus (1874)
Celestial bodies
15The Moon
16The Sun
17Solar eclipses
18Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen: Studies of the Solar Surface
19Appearances of the Total Eclipse of the Sun (1842)
20J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878)
21Home planet
22The earth from afar
Photographers
23David Malin: Anglo-Australian Observatory
Contemporary
24Contemporary astronomy
25iBook application: Atlas photographique de la Lune (2013)
Symbolism in popular culture
26The moon as a symbol
Photographers
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920), François Arago (1786-1853), Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski, Warren De la Rue (1815-1889), Henry Draper (1837-1882), John William Draper (1811-1882), Armand Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896), Gustav Fritsch (1838-1927), Paul & Prosper Henry, John Herschel (1792-1871), Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen (1824-1907), Hermann Krone (1827-1916), David Malin (1941-), James Nasmyth (1807-1890), William Notman (1826-1891), Mary Rosse (1813-1885), Lewis M. Rutherfurd (1816-1892), Thomas Smillie (1843-1917), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), C. Walter, J.A. Whipple (1822-1891), Whipple & Black
     
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Introduction
1Introduction to astronomy
2Rapid progress during the nineteenth century in astronomical photography
Telescopes and astronomical instruments
3Introduction to telescopes
4Mary Rosse: Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland (ca. 1857)
5Thomas Child: China: Pekin: Observatory (ca. 1875-1880)
Early astronomical photography
6J.A. Whipple: Daguerreotypes of the Sun and Moon (1852)
7Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment (1857)
8Warren De la Rue: The Moon
9Lewis M. Rutherfurd: Astronomy
10Charles Le Morvan: Carte photographique de la lune
11Ernest Mouchez: La Photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris et la Carte du Ciel (1887)
12Max Wolf and Joh. Palisa: Photographische Sternkarten (ca 1901-1904)
Tranisit of Venus
13Transit of Venus
14William de Wiveleslie Abney: Transit of Venus (1874)
Celestial bodies
15The Moon
16The Sun
17Solar eclipses
18Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen: Studies of the Solar Surface
19Appearances of the Total Eclipse of the Sun (1842)
20J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878)
21Home planet
22The earth from afar
Photographers
23David Malin: Anglo-Australian Observatory
Contemporary
24Contemporary astronomy
25iBook application: Atlas photographique de la Lune (2013)
Symbolism in popular culture
26The moon as a symbol

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