Abbreviations for Commonly Used Names and Sources

 

Abbreviations for Commonly Used Names

 

Dora — Dorothy Wordsworth, daughter of WW and MW (1804–1847)

DW — Dorothy Wordsworth (1755–1855)

John — John Wordsworth, eldest son of WW and MW (1803–1875)

MW — Mary Wordsworth, née Hutchinson, wife of WW (1770–1859)

SH — Sara Hutchinson, sister of MW (1775–1835)

STC — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and friend (1772–1834)

Seeing beyond the Dark Room: Representations of the Camera Obscura

Diagrams explaining how the camera obscura works
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This image gallery explores the unstable place of the camera obscura in Romantic visual culture and offers a critical revision of Jonathan Crary’s central thesis in Techniques of the Observer (1990). In this text, Crary contends that the camera obscura is a model of rational, disembodied vision that is later subsumed by a modern, subjective mode of observation. The varied representations of the optical apparatus in the Romantic period, however, complicate his notion that the camera obscura as a principal model of observation was roundly discarded in the first quarter of the nineteenth century in favor of a conception of modern vision based on new optical technologies.

Pneumatics

Diagram showing many of the properties of air

An illustration in a book of natural philosophy that demonstrates the many properties of air such as air pressure, floatation, hot air balloons. It also shows that the elevation achieved in a hot air balloon surpasses the highest mountains on earth.

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