Good Reading Podcast

How photography at the Australian Museum aided Darwin's theories


Listen Later

Archivist and curator Vanessa Finney unearths Australia's earliest natural history photographs in Capturing Nature, her new book that reveals how scientific photography began at the Australian museum.From tiny inch-long fish to whale skeletons as long as buses, the museum's camera captured thousands of extraordinary images that have never been seen by the public. Angus Dalton heads to the museum to meet Vanessa and find out how photography revolutionised scientific understanding of nature and influenced the ideas of Charles Darwin.Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2NGVDYKListen on Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2MXSxQ8About Capturing Nature: bit.ly/2HAgMUQ
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Good Reading PodcastBy Good Reading Magazine


More shows like Good Reading Podcast

View all
Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,519 Listeners

The New Yorker: Fiction by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker: Fiction

3,333 Listeners

No Filter by Mamamia Podcasts

No Filter

577 Listeners

The Bookshelf by ABC listen

The Bookshelf

38 Listeners

Stories Behind the Story with Better Reading by Better Reading Podcast

Stories Behind the Story with Better Reading

13 Listeners

The Book Show by ABC listen

The Book Show

16 Listeners

True Crime Conversations by Mamamia Podcasts

True Crime Conversations

564 Listeners

Extra Healthy-ish by BODY + Soul

Extra Healthy-ish

8 Listeners

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley by BBC Radio 4

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

212 Listeners

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart by Comedy Central

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

10,808 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics

3,084 Listeners

The Interview by The New York Times

The Interview

1,557 Listeners