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Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century

By: Omar W Nasim(Author)
296 pages, 85 b/w photos
Observing by Hand
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  • Observing by Hand ISBN: 9780226084374 Hardback Feb 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

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Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; William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.

Observing by Hand 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.

Contents

Introduction
Prologue

1          Consolidation and Coordination: Lord Rosse and His Assistants
2          Use and Reception: Biography of Two Images
3          Conception and Perception: E. P. Mason and Sir John F. W. Herschel
4          Skill and Instrumentation: William Lassell and Wilhelm Tempel

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Biography

Omar W. Nasim is a senior research fellow at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, a member of the Iconic Criticism project at the University of Basel, and the author of Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers.

By: Omar W Nasim(Author)
296 pages, 85 b/w photos
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