TY - BOOK ID - 727388 TI - Observing by Hand : Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century PY - 2014 SN - 9780226084374 9780226084404 022608437X 022608440X 9781306269841 1306269849 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of science KW - Applied astronomy KW - Astronomer KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Nebulae KW - Astronomers KW - Astronomy KW - Observations KW - History KW - Nebulae - Observations - History - 19th century KW - Astronomers - History - 19th century KW - Astronomy - History - 19th century KW - Physical scientists KW - Galactic nebulae KW - Gaseous nebulae KW - Nebulas KW - Galaxies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:727388 AB - Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on handmade drawings of these mysterious phenomena. Observing by Hand sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the production and reception of handdrawn images of the nebulae in the nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. Omar W. Nasim investigates hundreds of unpublished observing books and paper records from six nineteenth-century observers of the nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; William Lassell; Ebenezer Porter Mason; Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel; and George Phillips Bond. Nasim focuses on the ways in which these observers created and employed their drawings in data-driven procedures, from their choices of artistic materials and techniques to their practices and scientific observation. He examines the ways in which the act of drawing complemented the acts of seeing and knowing, as well as the ways that making pictures was connected to the production of scientific knowledge. An impeccably researched, carefully crafted, and beautifully illustrated piece of historical work, Observing by Hand will delight historians of science, art, and the book, as well as astronomers and philosophers. ER -