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Photography has long served as the "handmaid of science," making the invisible visible through microphotography, astronomical imaging, and X-ray technology. Luminous-Lint explores how the lens has functioned as an empirical tool, shaping our understanding of everything from medicine to deep space.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to scientific photography
2Introduction to scientific laboratories
Science and photographic processes
3Daguerreotypes: Scientific
4Salt prints: Scientific
5Albumen prints: Scientific
6Stereoviews: Scientific
7Gelatin silver prints: Science
8Autochromes: Scientific
Contemporary examples
9Contemporary scientific imagery
Themes
10Anthropology
11Nineteenth century botany
12Adolphe Neyt: Documentation of scientific experiments on surface tension
13Isabel Agnes Cowper: Mathematical models made in 1872 by Fabre de Lagrange of Paris, for the South Kensington Museum (1872)
14Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: X-rays
15Acoustics
16Franz Max Osswald: Sound photographs in architectural models, from Franz Max Osswald's applied acoustics laboratory at ETH Zurich (1930-1933)
Worlds fairs and international exhibitions
17The relationships between science and the World Fairs and International Exhibitions
Field books
18Smithsonian Field Book Project
Photographs that include data
19Photographs that include data
Photographers
20Berenice Abbott: Science
21Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee
Science and religion
22Evolution and the Biblical flood
Questioning science
23Joan Fontcuberta: Fabricated sciences and alternative histories
Conclusions
24Conclusions to scientific photography

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