"Graham Shepherd" <muhero.nospam at globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson at tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote in message
> news:bn0uq7$85m$1 at news.tudelft.nl...> > 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.
>Thanks, if the Dutch National Library hasn't got it, I'll ask them for a
photogopy of the chapter.
Lesley Robertson
