Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 303, looking down onto the stone buildings of the observing station, with the telescope visible.
Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 103 and showing tents, a telescope and other equipment, with a female figure (Mrs Jessie Smyth), posed among the impedimenta: 'At the back, and on either side of the tent, ran dwarf stone walls, to keep off the wind; the narrow interven...
Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
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Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
The equitorial camera [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
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Genre: Scientific Photography Showing the telescopic camera for the observation of the total solar eclipse at Camorta, being set up at the observation station by members of the Indian party.
Disc of flint glass; Chance, Brothers, and Co. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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View of the large piece of optical glass, 29 inches in diameter, exhibited by Chance Brothers. On first inspection by the jury, no opinion could be given as to its quality because of unevenness of the surface. After polishing, it was again examined and finally won a Council Medal, although the j...