Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century 豆 0.0分

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作者：Omar Nasim

出版社：University of Chicago Press

出版日期：2014-01

ISBN：9780226084374

文件格式： pdf

标签： STS 科学史 VisualRepresentation Astronomy

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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 r...