Chemistry of Photography Nature Series [PDF]

Chemistry of Photography Nature Series
by Raphael Meldola (Author)

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Publisher
London ; New York : Macmillan and Co.
Publication Date
1889
Related Titles
Series: Nature series.
Format
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations, diagrams ; 19 cm..
Language
English
General Note
Lectures delivered during the spring term of 1888 as a special course at the Finsbury Technical College. cf Pref.



As per:
https://www.nature.com/articles/041293b0

Abstract
THIS work is well worthy of study by serious devotees of photography. It enters, as its title indicates, into the chemistry of photography, and that in a very thorough and easily understandable manner. There are some very few points in the author's explanations of phenomena as regards which we cannot quite agree with him. For instance, when he is considering the action of light on silver chloride he states that an oxychioride is formed (on the authority of Dr. Hodgkinson). That this is not always the case is shown by the fact that silver chloride is darkened when exposed in the presence of bodies which contain no oxygen, as, for instance, when the exposure is given in benzene. The author has adopted the plan of calling his chapters lectures, and in this instance we shall find no fault with what often is an artifice to cover slipshod writing, since the subject-matter is good, the language clear, and descriptive experiments are appended after each note in the narrative. We feel assured that if a student be fairly grounded in elementary chemistry and carries out these experiments, he will have a far better knowledge of the theory of photography than nine out of ten students possessed before this work was written. The author rightly points out that much in the theory of photography still requires elucidation, and with this we quite agree; but by putting into a connected shape those portions of the theory which may not require reconsideration, he has done much towards facilitating the solution of the remaining problems which are still sub judice.

The Chemistry of Photography.

ByR. Meldola (London: Macmillan and Co., 1889.)



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