Maurice Loewy & Pierre Puiseux LUNAR ATLAS REPRODUCING... Lot 43

Maurice Loewy & Pierre Puiseux LUNAR ATLAS REPRODUCING AT A REDUCED SCALE OF 2/5THS THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGEMENTS OF MS LOEWY AND PUISEUX, BRUSSELS, BELGIAN SOCIETY OF ASTRONOMY, 1899 6 fascicles, printed covers, containing 53 photomechanical prints, 320 x 240 mm. "At the turn of the 20th century, the astronomers Maurice Loewy and Pierre-Henri Puiseux of the Paris Observatory, produced the very ambitious Photographic Atlas of the Moon, based on more than 6,000 pictures obtained during 500 nights of observation. As we can see on this crescent, the image is of a very great precision. These are instantaneous photographs, without the need to stabilize the lens for a long time. The lunar formations appear with a surprising reality. In addition to the scientific interest, these photographs have a striking artistic content. The best pictures were published and distributed to the scientific community in the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, and made public for the first time at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. They fed the research of many scientists ". (Observatoire de Paris).