Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (Hardcover)

~ Ann Thomas (Author)

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This album examines and illustrates the earliest applications of photography to scientific purposes. Thomas, a photography curator at Canada's National Gallery, edits seven chapters devoted either to the technology of photography, beginning with the daguerreotype, or to specific subjects in which photography opened the doors to new discoveries about natural forms and processes. Astronomy was such a subject, and early 1850s images of the moon and sun appear here, capped off by recent ones of Apollo in lunar orbit. Human anatomy and motion constitute one whole chapter, illustrated by the pioneering photographs of Albert Londe and Eadweard Muybridge. The book contains 150 images in all, depicting a variety of subjects: skeletons, plants, bullets, liquid droplets. This visual richness will attract students of photography's early history in science. Gilbert Taylor

Product Description

Images in scientific photographs can puzzle, startle, and inspire new thinking. This handsomely illustrated book presents a pioneering collection of photographs of science subjects. Leading experts in the history of photography and scientific photography consider these images, their technical genesis, the questions they inspire, and more. 90 color and 65 b&w illustrations .

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (December 22, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300073402
• ISBN-13: 978-0300073409
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #708,232 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars great reading, September 24, 2005

By	Marlo Kovach (new york, ny) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this is a great history of the use of photography with and thru science.