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The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science 
 
  
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Paperback 
272 pages 
Johns Hopkins University Press 
Published 2000 
  
From Book News, Inc. 
  
Examines how contemporary photographers and scientists understood the technology of the daguerreotype, the first photographic method, used from 1839 to the mid-1850s. Details the modern explanation of its mechanics and reviews the current means of image preservation and restoration. Of interest to historians of technology, and those involved with preservation efforts. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
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