Aux Amateurs de Physique – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Aux Amateurs de Physique, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Aux Amateurs de Physique
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The title, "Aux Amateurs de Physique" ("To the Amateurs of Physics"), dedicates the picture to the enthusiasts of experimental science, a reminder that early balloon flight belonged to the laboratory as much as to the sky. In France in the 1780s, ascents by the Montgolfier brothers and by Jacques Charles drew large crowds and turned hot air and hydrogen into public lessons about buoyancy and the nature of air. Gentlemen experimenters, instrument makers and curious onlookers followed these flights closely. The address to them suggests how the balloon was being claimed by science as well as by spectacle.
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,092 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02335uAux amateurs de physique |
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