| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nebulae -- Observations -- History -- 19th century.
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Nebulae. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Astronomers -- History -- 19th century.
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Astronomers. |
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Astronomy -- History -- 19th century.
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Astronomy. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780226084374 022608437X (DLC) 2013016608 |
| ISBN |
022608440X (electronic book) |
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9780226084404 (electronic book) |
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9781306269841 |
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1306269849 |
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9780226084374 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022608437X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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