1851-05
Journal for 1851-05. Preceded by 1851-04. Followed by 1851-06.
Events
Tasks
1851-05-01
1851-W18-4, 1851-121, Thu
- This was the first day of the Great Exhibition within The Crystal Palace at Hyde Park, London in England. The event would run until 1851-10-15.
- In Neal Stephenson's fictional narrative The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., the Great Exhibition was the first widespread display of photographic technology (specifically, a daguerreotype of the moon) which, in the story, was a pivotal event that caused a decline in magic until causal isolation via superconductors were invented near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- After some research, I found evidence in real life that a daguerreotype of the moon displayed at the Crystal Palace in 1851 by John Adams Whipple and William Cranch Bond which won a medal for excellence. The two were lauded for starting “a new era in astronomical representation”; the work was “extremely popular and drew crowds as they toured across Europe”.[2][3]
1851-05-02
1851-W18-5, 1851-122, Fri
1851-05-03
1851-W18-6, 1851-123, Sat
1851-05-04
1851-W18-7, 1851-124, Sun
1851-05-05
1851-W19-1, 1851-125, Mon
1851-05-06
1851-W19-2, 1851-126, Tue
1851-05-07
1851-W19-3, 1851-127, Wed
1851-05-08
1851-W19-4, 1851-128, Thu
1851-05-09
1851-W19-5, 1851-129, Fri
1851-05-10
1851-W19-6, 1851-130, Sat
1851-05-11
1851-W19-7, 1851-131, Sun
1851-05-12
1851-W20-1, 1851-132, Mon
1851-05-13
1851-W20-2, 1851-133, Tue
1851-05-14
1851-W20-3, 1851-134, Wed
1851-05-15
1851-W20-4, 1851-135, Thu
1851-05-16
1851-W20-5, 1851-136, Fri
1851-05-17
1851-W20-6, 1851-137, Sat
1851-05-18
1851-W20-7, 1851-138, Sun
1851-05-19
1851-W21-1, 1851-139, Mon
1851-05-20
1851-W21-2, 1851-140, Tue
1851-05-21
1851-W21-3, 1851-141, Wed
1851-05-22
1851-W21-4, 1851-142, Thu
1851-05-23
1851-W21-5, 1851-143, Fri
1851-05-24
1851-W21-6, 1851-144, Sat
1851-05-25
1851-W21-7, 1851-145, Sun
1851-05-26
1851-W22-1, 1851-146, Mon
1851-05-27
1851-W22-2, 1851-147, Tue
1851-05-28
1851-W22-3, 1851-148, Wed
1851-05-29
1851-W22-4, 1851-149, Thu
1851-05-30
1851-W22-5, 1851-150, Fri
1851-05-31
1851-W22-6, 1851-151, Sat
References
- ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_of_the_moon_taken_March_1851_LCCN2009632011.jpg
- ↑ “January 2, 1839: First Daguerreotype of the Moon”. (2013-01). APS News. Volume 22, Number 1. Accessed 2023-04-15. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01.
- ↑ Micah Messenheimer; Natanson, Barbara Orbach. (2021-07-22). ““A step out of and beyond nature”: Picturing the Moon”. Library of Congress Blogs. Accessed 2023-04-15. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. “Successful photographs of the moon using the daguerreotype process would not be made until over a dozen years later, when the celebrated Boston portrait photographer John Adams Whipple sought the assistance of Harvard astronomer William Cranch Bond and his son, George Phillips Bond. Using the college observatory’s Great Refractor telescope, they captured the sphere in its waxing gibbous phase on March 14, 1851. ... Whipple’s daguerreotypes won a medal for excellence at the 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London, which lauded their role in starting “a new era in astronomical representation.” The views were extremely popular and drew crowds as they toured across Europe, despite scientific quibbles that the photographs were not as accurate as drawn and engraved renderings observed with the human eye.”.
