Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to astronomy |
| 2 | Rapid progress during the nineteenth century in astronomical photography |
| Telescopes and astronomical instruments |
| 3 | Introduction to telescopes |
| 4 | Mary Rosse: Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland (ca. 1857) |
| 5 | Thomas Child: China: Pekin: Observatory (ca. 1875-1880) |
| Early astronomical photography |
| 6 | J.A. Whipple: Daguerreotypes of the Sun and Moon (1852) |
| 7 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment (1857) |
| 8 | Warren De la Rue: The Moon |
| 9 | Adolphe Neyt: Atlas photographique de la lune (1869) |
| 10 | Lewis M. Rutherfurd: Astronomy |
| 11 | Charles Le Morvan: Carte photographique de la lune |
| 12 | Ernest Mouchez: La Photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris et la Carte du Ciel (1887) |
| 13 | Max Wolf and Joh. Palisa: Photographische Sternkarten (ca 1901-1904) |
| Tranisit of Venus |
| 14 | Transit of Venus |
| 15 | William de Wiveleslie Abney: Transit of Venus (1874) |
| Celestial bodies |
| 16 | The Moon |
| 17 | The Sun |
| 18 | Solar eclipses |
| 19 | Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen: Studies of the Solar Surface |
| 20 | Appearances of the Total Eclipse of the Sun (1842) |
| 21 | J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878) |
| 22 | Home planet |
| 23 | The earth from afar |
| Photographers |
| 24 | David Malin: Anglo-Australian Observatory |
| Contemporary |
| 25 | Contemporary astronomy |
| 26 | iBook application: Atlas photographique de la Lune (2013) |
| Symbolism in popular culture |
| 27 | The moon as a symbol |
