Heliostat and other instruments , photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light by Claude-Marie Ferrier, 1851

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MS. 23051 photogr. 171

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Heliostat and other instruments, photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light and other physical experiments by Claude-Marie Ferrier for Dubosq-Soleil. The objects in the photograph were exhibited by Dubosq-Soleil at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The instruments include a saccharometer on the left, a heliostat in the centre and a haloscope on the right.

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Creation: 1851

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1 item

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English

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This material is light-sensitive. To ensure its availability to future readers, access to this item is restricted, and requires specialist support. Readers are asked to work from reproductions and published descriptions as far as possible. To apply to see the original, please send a message to specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, outlining the subject of your research, the importance of this material to that research, and the resources you have already consulted. Please also tell us about the timeframe for your project, if any, and when you hope to visit.

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MS. 23051 photogr. 171

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Wilson Centre Accession Number: 07:9662

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Biographical / Historical

Claude-Marie Ferrier was an early French photographer, known for his portraits of prominent French people, his work at the London Great Exhibition, and for his production of stereoviews to be viewed through the stereoscope invented by David Brewster. Together with Charles Soulier, he owned a large company in Paris, producing and distributing glass stereoviews of European subjects.