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THE application of photography to the recording and illustrating of volcanic phenomena has done much to secure accuracy, and the avoidance of those sources of error to which the students of these stupendous outbursts must always be particularly liable. Valuable as are the drawings made under the superintendence of Sir William Hamilton for his classic work, “Campi Phelgræi,” they do not carry the conviction to the mind of a reader of the work that actual photographs would do; while many of the drawings of volcanic phenomena in less carefully illustrated works are faulty and exaggerated almost to grotesqueness.
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J., J. Photographs of Volcanic Phenomena 1 . Nature 67, 464–465 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067464e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067464e0