Lunar Photographs, Maurice Loewy, 1896 - 1910
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Scientists immediately understood the advantages of photography, for instance to study the moon. After all, the human eye tires quickly and cannot easily compare the successive observations. This process could be complicated by the great amount of time this sometimes took because of poor weather. Between 1896 and 1910 the Paris observatory published a ‘moon atlas’ with 71 large plates, three of which are on display here.
