The advance of photography : its history and modern applications (1911)

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288 THE ADVANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY In 1840 Dr J. W. Draper of New York obtained a daguerreotype of the moon, and a few years later he also obtained one of the solar spectrum. In 1850 the first star photographs, and the first really Fig. 117. valuable photographs of the moon, were made by Bond at Cambridge. The first attempt in Germany to employ photography for astronomy was made by Berkowsky at the Konigsberg Observatory, in the year 1851, by the help of BesseFs noted heliometer, during a total eclipse of the sun. He