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- The Pencil of Nature
Chapters
27 totalIllustrations
Introductory Remarks
Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art
PLATE I. PART OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.
PLATE II. VIEW OF THE BOULEVARDS AT PARIS.
PLATE III. ARTICLES OF CHINA.
PLATE IV. ARTICLES OF GLASS.
PLATE V. BUST OF PATROCLUS.
PLATE VI. THE OPEN DOOR.
PLATE VII. LEAF OF A PLANT.
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Language
en
Duration
~56 minutes (53K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2010-08-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
William Henry Fox Talbot
1800–1877
A mathematician, classicist, and inventor, he helped turn photography from a curiosity into a practical way of recording the world. His experiments with paper negatives and the calotype process opened the door to modern photographic reproduction.
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