20-2, 022-11, 1890s, Cabinet Card, Herve Faye (1814-1906) French Astronomer

You are bidding on an original Antique 1890's Cabinet Card Photograph, Herve Faye (1814-1906) French Astronomer, about 75 years old.

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Hervé Faye (1 October 1814 – 4 July 1902) was a French politician, is a French astronomer.

Hervé Faye was the son of Hervé-Charles-Antoine Faye, an engineer from the Ponts-et-Chaussées and a member of the Egyptian Expedition, and Jeanne Françoise Euphrasie Dubrac.

After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he entered the École Polytechnique in 1832 but left voluntarily without having completed the two prescribed years. He went to work in Holland as an engineer in various industrial companies.

He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and then a Doctor of Science.

In 1842, he entered the Paris Observatory with the support of François Arago.

In 1843, he discovered the periodic comet that bears his name (4P/Faye). This new and fourth comet earned him the Lalande Prize in 1844. In gravimetry, in Bouguer's formula, its name is attached to the open-air correction, also called Faye's correction. He was a professor at the École Polytechnique, where he taught geodesy and astronomy from 1848 to 1854. He had Aimé Laussedat as his assistant during his last year.

Hervé Faye's family settled in Nancy, where he was rector of an academy and professor of astronomy. Faye's luminous expositions contribute strongly to shaking the Laplacian system, modelled on a narrow and rigorist Newtonian vision of the interstellar world.

In 1847, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1872. He was president of the Bureau des longitudes in 1876 and of the Société astronomique de France from 1889 to 18914.

In 1852, Faye was at the centre of a quarrel involving Arago and Father Angelo Secchi; he resigned from the Observatory.

In August 1854 he was appointed professor of pure and applied mathematics and rector of the faculty of science in Nancy.

He was briefly appointed Minister of Public Instruction, Religious Affairs and Fine Arts from 23 November to 13 December 18771 in the government of Gaétan de Rochebouët.

He died at the age of 87 and was buried in the cemetery of Passy (4th Division).

Married to Christine Sophie Jungblüth, he had one daughter. He had been promoted to Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1935, the International Astronomical Union named the lunar crater Faye after him.

Main publications:
1846. On a new zenithal collimator and on a new zenith boundary
1846. On the parallax of an anonymous star of the Big Dipper
1847. On the Ring of Saturn
1852. Lessons in cosmography written according to the official curriculum.
1873–1874. Astronomy courses. École Polytechnique. 1st Division.
1874–1875. Astronomy courses. École Polytechnique. 1st Division.
1878–1879. Astronomy and Geodesy Course. École Polytechnique. 1st Division.
1880. Cours d'astronomie nautique
1880. Of the Alleged Influences of the Moon
1881–1883. Cours d'astronomie de l'École Polytechnique (2 volumes))
1884. On the Origin of the World, Cosmogonic Theories of the Ancients and Moderns.
1887. On Storms, Theories and New Discussions
1897. New Study on Storms, Cyclones, Waterspouts or Tornados (ref. Wikipedia)

 
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Photographer: A. Liebert, 6, Rue de Londres, Paris & London
 

Card size: 4.25" x 6.5". #20-2, 022-11
 

The Cabinet Card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1⁄4 by 6+1⁄2 inches).

The carte de visite was displaced by the larger cabinet card in the 1880s. In the early 1860s, both types of photographs were essentially the same in process and design. Both were most often albumen prints, the primary difference being the cabinet card was larger and usually included extensive logos and information on the reverse side of the card to advertise the photographer’s services. However, later into its popularity, other types of papers began to replace the albumen process. Despite the similarity, the cabinet card format was initially used for landscape views before it was adopted for portraiture.

Some cabinet card images from the 1890s have the appearance of a black-and-white photograph in contrast to the distinctive sepia toning notable in the albumen print process. These photographs have a neutral image tone and were most likely produced on a matte collodion, gelatin or gelatin bromide paper.

Sometimes images from this period can be identified by a greenish cast. Gelatin papers were introduced in the 1870s and started gaining acceptance in the 1880s and 1890s as the gelatin bromide papers became popular. Matte collodion was used in the same period. A true black-and-white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924.

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