Book Description

a forth edition new endpapers library stamp - people palace
Dealer Notes
ALL those interested in this most attractive study will welcome Capt. Abney's treatise on photography. Those who wish to become acquainted with the scientific principles on which the practice of photography depends will find in the opening chapters a clear and concise description of the theory of sensitive substances, and of the action of light en various compounds, whilst by studying the closing chapters of the volume they will be able to make themselves acquainted with the present state of our knowledge on the important subjects of actino-metry, photo-spectroscopy, and the interesting discoveries made by the author and others on the sensitiveness of different salts, and the methods employed for obtaining pictures of the various portions of the spectrum.
Author Wiveleslie Abney
Date 1887
Binding cloth
Publisher Longmans and green
Pages 326

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