This week’s illustration post brings together two wonders of the 19th century industrial imagination: amateur astronomy and photography. Photography had become successful and popular by… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 6: Nasmyth’s “Moon” images
The photogenic drawing was the first of Fox Talbot’s photographic processes which he would present to the world on the 25th of January, 1839. This… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 5: Cameraless, Lensless and Shutterless Photography: The Photogenic Drawing
John Read, who was Professor of Chemistry in the University of St Andrews for all of 40 years, from 1923 to 1963, had an avid… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 4: Weird and Wonderful Alchemical Illustrations
As part of our 52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations we will explore the Photographic Collection by examining the evolution of photographic processes as they are… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 3: An Evolutionary History of Photography
St Andrews is a proud owner of a complete copy of the Popple Atlas, or Henry Popple’s A map of the British Empire in America.… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 2: the Popple Map of 1733
Last year, we started an experiment here at Echoes to create a post once a week focused on fantastic bindings found throughout the collections. This… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 1: Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
