Hoffmann Christoph
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstrasse 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Endeavour. 2009 Mar;33(1):18-23. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.01.003. Epub 2009 Feb 7.
Photographs of the processes taking place in the air around a flying bullet, which the Austrian physicists Ernst Mach and Peter Salcher published in 1887, very soon became emblematic for the power of scientific photography over the human eye. But the main advantage was merely that photography allowed the phenomena in question to be recorded. This permitted a new experimental approach. The scientists were therefore not visualising phenomena by studying a single photograph but by comparing the differences between several.
1887年，奥地利物理学家恩斯特·马赫和彼得·萨尔彻发表了关于飞行子弹周围空气中所发生过程的照片，这些照片很快就成为科学摄影相对于人眼的强大力量的象征。但主要优势仅仅在于摄影能够记录相关现象。这使得一种新的实验方法成为可能。因此，科学家们不是通过研究单张照片来呈现现象，而是通过比较多张照片之间的差异来实现。
