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"On January 7 1894, Frederic P. Ott, a laboratory assistant of W.K.L. Dickson (the inventor of the Kinetograph) stood before the world's first movie camera and sneezed. The paradox of the forty-five frames of 'Record of a Sneeze' is that it shows no sneeze - the droplets and globules of Ott's explosion were too fast, too many or too small. Having eluded the Kinetograph, the sneeze has spent more than a century in representational limbo; perpetually announced, perpetually failing to appear. In Ott's Sneeze, novelist Lawrence Norfolk and artist Neal White have reconstructed this missing sneeze employing the most recent developments in laser, video and computer technologies. The resulting sequence of photographs of the progression of the sneeze in space is shown alongside Dickson's original forty-five frames together with a commentary linking the two centuries."--Publisher's statement.

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108 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

Ott's sneeze / Lawrence Norfolk and Neal White.

"A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can't see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. An introduction to the science and technology of small things, No Small Matter explains science on the nanoscale. Authors Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides offer an overview of recent scientific advances that have given us our ever-shrinking microtechnology - for instance, an information processor connected by wires only 1,000 atoms wide. They describe the new methods used to study nanostructures, suggest ways of understanding their often bizarre behavior, and outline their uses in technology. This book explains the various means of making nanostructures and speculates about their importance for critical developments in information processing, computation, biomedicine, and other areas. No Small Matter considers both the benefits and the risks of nano/microtechnology - from the potential of quantum computers and single-molecule genomic sequencers to the concerns about self-replicating nanosystems. By making the practical and probable realities of nanoscience as comprehensible and clear as possible, the book provides a unique vision of work at the very boundaries of modern science."--Publisher's description.

vii, 182 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

No small matter : science on the nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.

"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--

Reasoned and unreasoned images : the photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey / Josh Ellenbogen.

Envisioning science : the design and craft of the science image / Felice Frankel.

188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Le merveilleux scientifique : photographies du monde savant en France 1844-1918 / Denis Canguilhem ; postface de Clément Chéroux.

Nature exposed : photography as eyewitness in Victorian science / Jennifer Tucker.

103 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm

Sun gardens : Victorian photograms / by Anna Atkins ; text by Larry J. Schaaf ; organized by Hans P. Kraus, Jr.

160 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm

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Ott's sneeze / Lawrence Norfolk and Neal White.

No small matter : science on the nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.

Reasoned and unreasoned images : the photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey / Josh Ellenbogen.

Envisioning science : the design and craft of the science image / Felice Frankel.

Le merveilleux scientifique : photographies du monde savant en France 1844-1918 / Denis Canguilhem ; postface de Clément Chéroux.

Nature exposed : photography as eyewitness in Victorian science / Jennifer Tucker.

Sun gardens : Victorian photograms / by Anna Atkins ; text by Larry J. Schaaf ; organized by Hans P. Kraus, Jr.

On the surface of things : images of the extraordinary in science / Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides.

The beautiful and the damned : the creation of identity in nineteenth century photography / Peter Hamilton, Roger Hargreaves.

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Ott's sneeze / Lawrence Norfolk and Neal White.

No small matter : science on the nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.

Reasoned and unreasoned images : the photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey / Josh Ellenbogen.

Envisioning science : the design and craft of the science image / Felice Frankel.

Le merveilleux scientifique : photographies du monde savant en France 1844-1918 / Denis Canguilhem ; postface de Clément Chéroux.

Nature exposed : photography as eyewitness in Victorian science / Jennifer Tucker.

Sun gardens : Victorian photograms / by Anna Atkins ; text by Larry J. Schaaf ; organized by Hans P. Kraus, Jr.

On the surface of things : images of the extraordinary in science / Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides.

The beautiful and the damned : the creation of identity in nineteenth century photography / Peter Hamilton, Roger Hargreaves.

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