"Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson at tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote in message
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> I've recently started scanning the huge collection of glass negatives from
> the Delft School Archives and have been amazed at the quality of late 19th
> century pictures of microorganisms. I'm accustomed to the beautiful
quality
> of portraits and landscapes from the period, but to find bacteria, yeasts
> and protozoa in such detail was a bit of a surprise.
>> Can anyone suggest a decent book or other source about the history of
> photography through the microscope?
> Lesley Robertson
>http://www.beijerinck.bt.tudelft.nl>>
In "Essays on the History of the Microscope" (G. L'E. Turner, ISBN 0 906831
01 6), the essay "Microscopical Communication" covers both the making of
photographs and their reproduction in print. Turner is (or was) at the
Museum of the History of Science at Oxford.
GS
