A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory

The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his research on the solar microscope. A rectangular mirror, the length of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavicchi, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Edgerton Center (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151954
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000885