View of the Mound, 1843. Inverted negative–the writing in the sky is a watermark in the paper, made visible by the process of negative scanning. In the history of photography, the name Louis Daguerre is well-known, as is that, to a lesser extent, of his onetime partner, French scientist Joseph Nicephor Niepce, credited with … Continue reading "Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44"