Capturing the Light

Capturing the Light

Author: Roger Watson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1250009707

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Relates the quest of two very different geniuses in the 1830s, totally ignorant of each other's work, to solve the ancient puzzle of capturing the world around them, describing how they invented two dramatically different photographic processes.


The False Formosan

The False Formosan

Author: Richard M. Swiderski

Publisher: Mellen University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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This is reconsideration of the Assyrian Christian scholar and confidence man George Psalmanazar who dazzled 18th-century London in the disguise of a Chinese savant. Swiderski explores the fabulism and credulity of the time as well as analyzing the scientific curiosity aroused by Psalmanazar's writings.