The Moon Imagined
James Hall Nasmyth (1808-1890), a Scottish inventor and engineer, is best known for his development of the steam hammer. After his success in engineering and industry, Nasmyth retired and spent his later life pursuing the hobby of amateur astronomy. He moved to Kent and built a 20 inch reflecting telescope, made detailed observations of the Moon, and eventually in 1874, he published a book titled The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. This wonderful volume is illustrated with photographs (woodburytypes) and a copy is housed in the rare book collection in The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. The book was published to demonstrate the origin of certain mountain ranges on the Moon through erosion and age. Nasmyth and co-author James Carpenter believed that Lunar mountains were the result of volcanic activity, a theory that was later disproved.
In 1885 it was not possible to make detailed photographs of the Moon so the fabulous illustrations in this book are actually plaster models that Nasmyth and Carpenter fabricated based on their observations of the satellite.
TITLE ON OBJECT: Aristotle And Eudoxus
SERIES TITLE: "The Moon (Naysmith)"
transparency, collodion on glass
3 1/4 X 4 in.
Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
86:0817:0010
NON-GEH NUMBER: 10
NOTES: Catalogued 02/88, BS.
SUBJECT: landscape, planetary / Moon
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a572/paparumbo/m198608170010_zpsa07f3cb5.jpg)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
SERIES TITLE: "The Moon (Naysmith)"
transparency, collodion on glass
3 1/4 X 4 in.
Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
86:0817:0012
NON-GEH NUMBER: 12
NOTES: Catalogued 02/88, BS.
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a572/paparumbo/m198608170012_zpsebe54084.jpg)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Aristarchus and Herodotus
SERIES TITLE: "The Moon (Naysmith)"
transparency, collodion on glass
3 1/4 X 4 in.
Gift of the 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
86:0817:0021
NON-GEH NUMBER: 21
NOTES: Catalogued 02/88, BS.
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a572/paparumbo/m198608170021_zps120509b9.jpg)
http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi2/moon_sum00001.html
http://www.archive.org/details/consideredasmoon00nasmrich
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Here is the Internet Archive Link to that book Elvis: https://ia600406.us.archive.org/23/items/moonconsideredas00nasmrich/moonconsideredas00nasmrich.pdf (https://ia600406.us.archive.org/23/items/moonconsideredas00nasmrich/moonconsideredas00nasmrich.pdf)
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