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daguerreotype of the sun by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault, view obtained 2 April 1845 © Musée des arts et métiers-Cnam. +
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daguerreotype of the sun by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault, view obtained 2 April 1845 © Musée des arts et métiers-Cnam. +
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Hippolyte Fizeau, a French physicist, was born Sep. 23, 1819.
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One of the first pictures ever taken of the sun.
Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau, 1845
Other Moon's daguerreotypes: 1) taken by John William Draper in 1845 2) taken by John Adams Whipple and George Bond in 1851 3) taken by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault in 1845
sources: AstroLab, The daguerreotype as a scientific tool
Hippolyte Fizeau, Entrance into the port of Havre (1841)