A History and Handbook of Photography

by Gaston Tissandier, J.J. Thomson (Translator)

Excerpt from A History and Handbook of Photography
Arago placed the daguerreotype amongst the most remarkable conquests of genius, by the side of the tele scope and the electric battery. And indeed to every enlightened mind, the fixing of the image or picture of the camera Obscura or dark chamber by chemical agents, must appear a great event in the history of progress. An art so novel, capable of producing at the very outset such strange results, at once stamped itself as something grand, extraordinary, as a work full of vitality and vigour.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1873

About the author

Gaston Tissandier était un chimiste, écrivain scientifique et aérostier français.

Gaston Tissandier was a French chemist, scientific writer and balloonist.