Technologies of Wonder : Optical Devices, Perception and the Book, 1851-1895

This thesis is about the conceptual and material interrelationship between the book and resurgent and emerging optical technologies of representation in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the forty-four or so years between the century's greatest optical show, the Great Exhibition of 1851, an...

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Main Author: Hunt, Verity Jane
Published: University of Reading 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511659