Photography as an Aid to Science

Abstract

The applications made of photography now-a-days are as various as they are numerous. Irrespective of the ordinary every-day uses to which the art is put in reproducing scenes and objects, or pandering to human vanity, there are, as we know, numberless ways in which it is constantly being employed as a faithful handmaiden to science. To the chemist, the surgeon, the engineer, and others, its aid is frequently of considerable importance, while to the astronomer and physicist the assistance it renders is at times indispensable. The accuracy and fidelity with which the pencil of light performs its functions, combined with the facility with which such reliable records are obtained, make photography indeed one of the greatest boons at the disposal of scientific men.