Présentation d’un spécimen de photographies d’un passage artificiel de Vénus, obtenu avec le révolver photographique. Offprint from the Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, Tom. 79, 6 July, 1874. Bound with 57 other offprints by Janssen from the Comptes rendus.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1874-95. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Janssen’s epoch-making description of his ‘photographic revolver’ and of its first results, “the first ‘film’” (Singer, A History of Technology V, p. 739). “The first practical device for sequential photography, invented to record the transit of Venus in 1874, was later..... More
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