OK, I lied a bit. I said the second chapter would be more fun than the first, but it's not more fun. It's kind of sad, actually. This one focuses (yes, pun intended) on Joseph Nicephore Niepce. You may know him as the man who took the first photograph. But back in his day people knew him as . . . . . actually they didn't know of him at all, really. After Wedgwood's efforts around 1800, there was a gap where people weren't working on making images. There was too much other stuff going on. Most of...
OK, I lied a bit. I said the second chapter would be more fun than the first, but it's not more fun. It's kind of sad, actually. This one focuses (yes, pun intended) on Joseph Nicephore Niepce. You may know him as the man who took the first photograph. But back in his day people knew him as . . . . . actually they didn't know of him at all, really. After Wedgwood's efforts around 1800, there was a gap where people weren't working on making images. There was too much other stuff going on. Most of...
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