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Microphotographs of Paper Fibers
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
For science, photography was a useful tool for supplementing or refuting what could be observed with the human eye. The camera, after all, saw more than the eye, and the photographic plate had a better ‘memory’ than man. By combining a microscope and a camera, tiny objects could also be studied closely.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMicrofoto’s van papiervezels. 1900. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
