Paper, 'On the photography of the Moon' by William Crookes
Reference number: AP/39/10
Date: 1856
Description
Crookes discusses lunar photography, describing the process of taking photos of the Moon in the autumn of 1855.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Photography / Astronomy
Received 16 December 1856. Read 12 February 1857. Communicated by [George Gabriel] Stokes.
This paper was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the photography of the Moon'.
- Reference number
- AP/39/10
- Earliest possible date
- 1856
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 21 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Crookes, Paper, 'On the photography of the Moon' by William Crookes, 1856, AP/39/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_10/paper-on-the-photography-of-the-moon-by-william-crookes, accessed on 18 January 2026
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Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0095
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
1856-1857 Reference number: AP/39
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