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Author Nasim, Omar W., 1976- author.

Title Observing by hand : sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century / Omar W. Nasim
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013
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Contents Consolidation and coordination : Lord Rosse and his assistants -- Use and reception : biography of two images -- Conception and perception : E.P. Mason and Sir John F.W. Herschel -- Skill and instrumentation : William Lassell and Wilhelm Tempel
Summary 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 handdrawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nebulae -- Observations -- History -- 19th century
Astronomers -- History -- 19th century
Astronomy -- History -- 19th century
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Astronomers
Astronomy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 022608440X
9780226084404
9781306269841
1306269849