After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins was raised by her father, who gave her a scientific education. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist, recording all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings. After the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842, she used this new technology to catalogue plant specimens and published a book of her photographs and handwritten text in 1843. It is considered to be the first book of photographs ever published.
800L Lexile|||juvenile
by Fiona Robinson.
Includes bibliographical references.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.2 0.5 198098.
