Henry Morton, “Solar Eclipse—August 7, 1869” (The Philadelphia Expedition”), pp 200-216, 249-275 (with three full page plates), 276-288. This paper is illustrated with what I think is a Woodburytype—a photographic process—of a the solar prominence and is entitled “Solar Eclipse, August 7th, 1869”, measuring 4”x 6” on a plate. It is noted in the paper that the photo is “half of the totality picture”, and is accompanied by a fair amount of description on pp 210-211. In: Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Vol 58 (third series), vol 88 overall, July to December 1869, with text illustrations and illustrations; 426, x pp. Half-calf, with raised bands. Ex-library, with some scuffing on the spine; a few stamps on the title page. Very Good copy. This is an excellent volume on solar eclipses, astrophotography, and instrumentation. $350
G.A. Majocchi made the first photograph of the partial phase of a solar eclipse in 1842; Berkowski made the first daguerreotype of a total eclipse of the Sun in 1851, and in the same year Secchi made images of the partial phases of the eclipse. Warren de la Rue (whose work is referenced in this paper) photographed the total eclipse of the Sun in Spain in 1860, which places some of the significant aspects of photography and eclipses some decade or two before the appearance of this photo in the JFI in 1869. I cannot locate however any information on the first publication of an original photo of a solar eclipse (full or partial) in a journal or book, though I suspect that the image we have here is at least quite early. The image published in the JFI was one of 13 images made during totality at three different locations (at relatively quick exposure times between 2 and 5 seconds).
Also appearing here: F. Zollner, “Observations of the Solar Protuberances”, pp 317-319, with two beautiful plates).
Plus there’s an extended paper by Morton,. “Spectrum Analysis”, pp 56-62, 136-141.
- Also in this volume are the following interesting papers:
“The London Water Supply”, pp 169-175;
William Crookes, “On the Measurement of the Luminous Intensity of Light”, pp 133-135;
A.S. Herschel, “On the Methods and Recent Progress of Spectrum Analysis”, pp 49-52.
Lastly, there’s a short notice on the beginning of the work of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge (pp 361-3, this of course would be later called the “Brooklyn Bridge”.