BOOKS

Images 1 and 2 are classified as books. They challenge our notion of what constitutes a book.

Images 3-4 are models made of plaster from observing the moon through a telescope during the late 1800’s. The models were then photographed and published in 1874.
Images in sequence:

1-2 Alexander Brill “Models of second-order surfaces” published Darmstadt,1874.

3-4 NASMYTH, James (1808-1890) and James CARPENTER (1840-1899). The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and A Satellite. London: John Murray, 1874. Copyright University of Edinburgh.

Photography Malcolm Brown.



These images have been reprocessed, remixed and adapted from images photographed by Malcolm Brown for the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collections.