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Author(s):	Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century by Omar W. Nasim

Date:	2014	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	022608437X
Pages:	1	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescopes 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 Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel  William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse  William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. He 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.

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