JOSÉ MONSERRAT Y RIUTORT Y EL PRIMER DESCUBRIMIENTO DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA ASTRONÓMICA: lAS FOTOGRAFÍAS DEL ECLIPSE DE SOL DE 1860.

Antonio E. Ten; Joaquín Castro Soler y José María López Piñero.

IEDHC (CSIC-Universidad de Valencia)

Artículo publicado en los Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 47, pp. 3-26, (1997).

SUMMARY.

The solar origin of the red flames that can be seen in the border of the moon during total solar eclipses was definitively established by photographic techniques during the eclipse of July, 18, 1860, observed in Spain. The article studies the scientific biography of José Monserrat y Riutort, the autor of the main group of photographs taken of the eclipse, and the context in which this discovery took place. Monserrat in presented as a typical member of the "intermediate generation" of scientists which prepared the renewal of the spanish science in the late nineteenth century.