The Development of Photography as a Scientific Instrument in the 19th Century
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-2158.i18p1-28Keywords:
Astronomy, Scientific Photography, History of SciencesAbstract
Photography has been extensively used by scholars from various fields as a relevant documentary source for knowledge production. However, few academic studies have addressed a particular type of photography: scientific photography. Sometimes approached in its technical aspects, sometimes in its relation to art, we understand that an analysis of this source as a historical document capable of providing pertinent information to the historian's craft is necessary and essential. Through a specific field of study, Astronomy, we seek to understand how photography was employed for the production of scientific data through the creation and use of these images, noting that photography’s reception in this field was gradual and non-linear, depending on innovations in the photographic process that allowed for adequate recording.
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