The Pencil of Nature

Name: The Pencil of Nature
Author: William Henry Fox Talbot

by William Henry Fox Talbot

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2010-08-16

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Public domain in the USA.

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Photography -- Early works to 1850

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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