To celebrate what would have been the 216th birthday of Anna Atkins, a new Google Doodle features images of leaves reminiscent of the botanist’s groundbreaking contribution to photography. Atkins used ...

Anna Atkins, “ Alaria esculenta,” from Part XII of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1849-50), cyanotype (courtesy Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and ...

Anna Atkins died in 1871, but her story is only now being fully written, and it’s no staid Victorian tale. Joshua Chuang speaks of her in an urgent whisper. Granted, he works in a library — as the New ...

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Chordaria flagelliformis, from "British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions," by Anna Atkins (March 16, 1799–June 9, 1871). The images in this article were digitized from Sir John Herschel's copy of the book ...

Anna Atkins is getting some special recognition on the Google home page today, 216 years after her date of birth. The blue Google Doodle showcases leaves imprinted on a blue back drop. That was Anna's ...