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The FIRST colour photograph was made under the instruction of Scottish polymath James Clerk Maxwell by photographer Thomas Sutton, in 1861. It's a picture of a tartan ribbon.
The picture you credited with being first is undoubtedly prettier, but 11 years too late to claim primacy.
Another early colour photographer of note, though decades later, was Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. The Library of Congress has an exquisite collection of his colour pictures of Czarist Russia at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
The picture you credited with being first is undoubtedly prettier, but 11 years too late to claim primacy.
Another early colour photographer of note, though decades later, was Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. The Library of Congress has an exquisite collection of his colour pictures of Czarist Russia at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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It is now universally accepted that when BC/AD was calculated, those doing it got the year wrong. So Jesus was actually born in a BC year, which, you are bound to agree, causes some philosophical problems with the definition.
To make matters worse, there is no year zero. So even if they had got it exactly right, he would still have been born in 1 BC, because he was not born on New Year's eve.
BCE/CE has neither of those complications and we all still know what it really refers to.