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Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A. D. 1865; With a Discussion of the Frits Ascertained. I

Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A. D. 1865; With a Discussion of the Frits Ascertained. I


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. MAGNESIUM PHOTOGRAPHY. After safely descending the Great Pyramid, our Playfair astronomical circle, --its intended work completed, --was finally put away into its packingboxes and screwed down, in readiness for returning home. The dry-plate photographic camera had been similarly disposed of, the dry plates having all been used; much of the measuring apparatus, including the Coventry clinometer, was likewise finished with, and packed up; in fact, there remained now little to do, --in the present state of the Pyramid, be it always understood, as to excavation and exposure, --beyond trying to procure photographs of crucial points of its interior by aid of the magnesium light. Now this operation required the use of wet collodion; and though we had not fallen into the misfortune, confidently predicted for us by various acquaintances, as to the Khamaseen wind driving sand amongst the bottles of chemicals, until the glass stoppera would no longer fit into their places, --something else had made two samples of collodion ferment, and all the acetic acid very nearly to lose its acidity, or at all events its power either to change 470 SELF-WILLED NOTIONS OF dlAP. XVI. the colour of litmus paper, or to keep silver baths and iron developers from fogging. Hence unnumbered failures in misty, streaky, and spotty pictures, as we were trying the apparatus day after day from the entrance of the Howard Vyse instrument-room. Perhaps too we should have got out of our difficulties sooner, had we been content to take an ordinary photographic camera, as prepared for the many, --instead of plunging into an attempt to organize something new, wherewith to fulfil various requirements not yet brought together in any one apparatus, but still often desired by not a few real tr


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235728549
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235728544
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr

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