Désiré van Monckhoven

Van Monckhoven photo from [1]

Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and optician, who wrote several of the earliest books on photography and photographic optics, in French, later translated to English and other languages. Year 1834 ( MDCCCXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those A chemist is a Scientist trained in the Science of Chemistry. A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Scientific Equipment OpticianAn optician is an Eye care professional who provides corrective lenses based on a prescription for the correction of a Refractive Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

He invented or developed an enlarger (1864), a dry collodion process (1871), improvements of the carbon print process (1875–80), and improved silver-bromide gelatine emulsions. [2]

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Traité Populaire de Photography sur Collodion, or, A Popular Treatise on Photography : Also A Description of, and Remarks on, the Stereoscope and Photographic Optics, Etc. Etc, By D. van Monckhoven. Translated By W. H. Thornthwaite, PH. D. , F. C. S. Illustrated with many Woodcuts. London: Virtue Brothers & CO. , 1, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 1863. (A partial English transcription is available online [3])
Désiré van Monckhoven, Photographic Optics; Including the Description of Lenses and Enlarging Apparatus, translated from the original French by Robert Hardwicke, Piccadilly, London, 1867, reprinted by Arno Press, New York, NY, 1979. (Full book available online [4])

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