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Herschel8927

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[7 May 1860]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 4 (May 11, 1860), 13
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of stereoscopic photography of action scenes. Also speculates about color photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8931

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[30 June 1860]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 4 (1860), 118
Summary:

[Writing under the pseudonym 'Redde Suum Cuique'], JH notes that a recently published process for recovering silver from old plate was in fact anticipated by James Keir in a 1790 R.S.P.T. paper. Attacks a recent misuse of the word 'actinometer.'

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John Herschel Project
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