William Hyde Wollaston
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William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable in
Portrait by John Jackson
Camera lucida
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A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and microscopists. By looking through the prism in its standard, a user sees an optical superimposition of the subject positioned
William Hyde Wollaston
…famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots, patented the camera lucida, and made contributions in electricity and spectroscopy. He was born in East Dereham in Norfolk, the son of the Francis Wollaston (1737–1815), a noted…
Camera lucida in use
Camera Lucida or Drawing Prism for Biological Microscopic Drawing
Scenery from Mr Jenkins' cottage, Illawarra, ca. 1850, by John Rae, watercolour drawing created using a camera lucida, State Library of New South Wales, DL PXX 74 no.16
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