Article Dans Une Revue Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza Année : 2024

The Amateur Astronomer as Image Producer

L'amateur d'astronomie en producteur d'images

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Abstract This article approaches the history of amateur astronomers in the late nineteenth century via visual and material sources. It adopts three separate viewpoints: Jules Pierrot Deseilligny’s home-based workshop, two self-portraits of amateurs at work, and a corpus of selenographic images published in the Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France . These sources throw light on amateur savant practices, which are largely based on producing images, sometimes taking the form of a structured scholarly project, and giving rise to exchanges, debates, and sociabilities. It identifies a proliferation during the years 1880 to 1914, characterised by a particular sensitivity to the extraterrestrial life feeding a powerful desire to observe the surface of the moon.

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hal-04491270 , version 1 (20-12-2024)

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Laurence Guignard. The Amateur Astronomer as Image Producer. Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza, 2024, 39 (1), pp.116-140. ⟨10.1163/18253911-bja10087⟩. ⟨hal-04491270⟩
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