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History and Philosophy: Gaston Tissandier

• Gaston Tissandier [Grace's Guide to British Industrial History]
• The Catastrophe of the Zenith [American Journal of Science 9, 481 (1875)]
• The balloon ride of death , 2012/12. (About Gaston Tissandier's disastrous 1875 ascent.) [Skulls in the Stars]
• Gaston Tissandier (Obituary) [La Nature 27, 225 (1899)]
• Le début du point de vue Google Mappienne, Greg Allen, 2009. (In English, despite the title. Compares an 1885 aerial photograph by G. Tissandier and J. Ducom to the same view on Google Maps.) [Greg.Org]
• Wood Engraving of Gaston Tissandier, Ch. Dietrich, ca. 1885. [Library of Congress]
• Engraving of the Tissandier Brothers in their Powered Airship, E. A. Tilley, ca. 1890. [Library of Congress]

• WORKS:
  • Gaston Tissandier (List of his works, probably incomplete.) [Chemie.de Information Service GmbH]
  • L'Eau (1867) English translation: Wonders of Water [New York: Scribners, 1894] Mostly popularised meteorology and geoscience.
  • La houille by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1869] Scan omits most illustrations from this popular work about coal.
  • Les ballons dirigeables: Expériences de M. Henri Giffard et de M. Dupuy de Lôme by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Dentu, 1872]
  • La photographie (1873) by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1882] English translation of earlier edition: A History and Handbook of Photography [London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1876]
  • Les fossiles by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1875]
  • Les poussières de l'air by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1877] About airborne dust, including the possibility that some is of extraterrestrial origin.
  • Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier [Paris: Masson, 1878] The illustrations are truly astonishing: technical drawing as a kind of proto-surrealism.
  • Observations météorologiques en ballon by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879]
  • Histoire des mes ascensions by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier [Paris: Dreyfous, 1880]
  • Les récréations scientifiques (1880) English translation: Half Hours of Scientific Amusement ; or, Practical Physics and Chemistry without Apparatus by Gaston Tissandier [London: Ward & Lock, 1890]
  • Le problème de la direction des aérostats by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Le Génie Civil, 1883] Parts of this copy are unreadable.
  • La navigation aérienne by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1886]
  • La photographie en ballon by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886] One of the most important books in the history of photography.
  • Bibliographie aéronautique: Catalogue de livres d'histoire, de science, de voyages et de fantaisie by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Launette, 1887]
  • Souvenirs et récits d'un aérostier militaire de l'Armée de la Loire, 1870-1871 by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Dreyfous, 1891] Abridged English translation: Bullets and Balloons: Escape From the Siege of Paris 1870 [HistoryNet.Com]
  • Voyages dans les airs by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1891]

  • Travels in the Air edited by Jas. Glaisher [London: Bentleys, 1871] contains an English translation of some of Tissandier's aeronautical writings, along with those of other balloonists.

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