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April 13, 2017April 10, 2017

William Henry Fox Talbot

This remarkable phenomenon, of whatever value it may turn out in its application to the arts, will at least be accepted as a new pr...

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April 10, 2017

Kelley Wilder

Since camera, lenses, emulsions, and other photographic equipment register images that lie so far outside the scope of the human se...

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April 10, 2017

Fotini Markopoulu

Between the truth of the physical world and a physics theory, there’s humans. Of course, nothing happens there, because removing th...

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April 3, 2017March 27, 2017

Jennifer Tucker

What defined many scientific photographs as a genre was not merely their subject matter (e.g., lightning, clouds, microscopic objec...

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March 30, 2017March 27, 2017

William H. Gass

Seeing is so important in science that he task is seldom left to the unaided eye, and never to an untrained one.

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March 27, 2017

Vilém Flusser

The division of culture into a scientific-technical culture and an artistic culture has been overcome thanks to photography: scient...

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March 23, 2017March 20, 2017

Kelley Wilder

The inventions and innovations of photography, in their turn, influenced the way scientists observed, and restructured the hierarchy of observations scientists hel...

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March 20, 2017

Lawrence M. Krauss

…if history is any guide, every time we have built new eyes to observe the universe, our understanding of ourselves and our place in it has been forever altered.

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March 20, 2017

Carl Sagan

We live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star, lost in a galaxy, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe.

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February 27, 2017March 8, 2017

Lorraine Datson and Peter Galison

Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, men of science began to fret openly about a new kind of obstacle to knowledge: themselves. Their fear was that the subjecti...

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