The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

French Photographic Society,

The sitting of this society, which was held en Friday
last, presented some points of interest, An apparatus was
presented, by which a collodionised plate might be seesi-
deed without touching it with the hands, it being held in a
kind of vice and dipped into the nitrate contained in a com-
partment below, adjoining which there were four other
compartments for the hyposulphite and other liquids. The
society then proceeded to vote the regulations for the
exhibition to be held this year in the Palais de l'ln-
dustrie, conjointly with that of Living Artists ; after
which M. Liebert, a Californian photographer, exhie
bited an apparatus of his own invention, by which enlarged
copies may be obtained with great ease and in the course of
two hours under the worst circumstances. The apparatv.;
consists of a cubic box in front, which receives tie light
through a large meniscus, whereby it arrives -condensed at
an objective, which re-expands it, easl.ilig the image on a
sensitised sheet of paper stretched on the ham .ef a tecond
box of the form of a truncated pyramid, and situated at the
distance of about a metre from the objective, contrivances
being of course adopted. for extending or contracting
the distance. The system rests on a support
provided with means for altering the inclination,
and also for turning the apparatus horizontally so as to
follow the sun. A member of the Society made some ob-
jections to the system, contending that without the aid of a
heliostat the rays of the sun could never be correctly trans-
mitted through the centre of the objective, and that conse-
quently the image obtained must become indistinct or
double; to which objection M. Liebert replied by produc-
ing a large photograph, about 40 centimetres in height, and
not presenting tha slightest defect. This practical illustra-
tion of course silenced opposition for the moment, and a
commission was appointed to examine the system and to
citness its practical working. After this discussion, a he-
liostatn receiving
produced,t, constructed on a principle which the
inventor thought calculated to prevent any error of angles
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thth,at the sun, by means of an excentric
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difference
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the anegilne
machine
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was provided with a vertical and an oblique motion, but we
could not discover any horizontal one. M. Leon Foucault,
an authority in the matter,
presented the apparatus on the principlestohjeigtsencotlnesmaaunetwiohno,
but could receive no satisfactory answer, the person ad-
dressed not being the inventor,

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