Observing by Hand

Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century

Autor: Omar W. Nasim

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press

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Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Teles...

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Autor

Omar W. Nasim

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2014

strony

296

EAN

9780226084374

ISBN

022608437X

Enbook ID

04543140

Wydawca

The University of Chicago Press

Waga

1270

Wymiary

264 x 189 x 28

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Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on handmade drawings of these mysterious phenomena. Observing by Hand sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of hand-drawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; William Lassell; Ebenezer Porter Mason; Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel; and George Phillips Bond. Nasim focuses on the ways in which these observers created and employed their drawings in data-driven procedures, from their choices of artistic materials and techniques to their practices and scientific observation. He examines the ways in which the act of drawing complemented the acts of seeing and knowing, as well as the ways that making pictures was connected to the production of scientific knowledge. An impeccably researched, carefully crafted, and beautifully illustrated piece of historical work, Observing by Hand will delight historians of science, art, and the book, as well as astronomers and philosophers.

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