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In the early 1840s St Andrews became the first town in the world to be documented thoroughly through the new medium of photography. At the same time Robert Chambers wrote in St Andrews one of the most scandalous books of the Victorian age,Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844).  Vestiges presented a comprehensive account of the history of the Earth, from the formation of the Solar Sys…