John Adams Whipple
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John Adams Whipple was notable for working with Harvard College astronomer William Cranch Bond to use the college's Great Refractor telescope to create a daguerreotype of Earth's moon which won a prize in excellence at the 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London, making it one of the first popular examples of photography.
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- 1851: Their deguerreotype of the moon, made in cooperation with William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, won a prize for excellence at the 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London.[1]
Baltakatei history
- I looked up references for the Great Exhibition in the monthly journal for 1851-05, the month in which the Great Exhibition opened to the public.
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Phase of the moon taken March 1851 (1851-03) by John Adams Whipple[2]
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- ↑ 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.”.
- ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_of_the_moon_taken_March_1851_LCCN2009632011.jpg
