William Henry Fox Talbot : pioneer of photography and man of science / H.J.P. Arnold.

Main entry:

Arnold, H. J. P. (Harry John Philip), 1932-2006.

Title & Author:

William Henry Fox Talbot : pioneer of photography and man of science / H.J.P. Arnold.

Publication:

London : Hutchinson, 1977.

Description:

383 pages, leaf of plates, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color coat of arms, facsimiles, genealogical tables, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An abbey and ancestors -- Minority, Cambridge and the 1820s. The creative decade -- Photogenic drawing -- The calotype -- Photography: of priority, plagiarism and patents -- Applied science and etymology -- Mid-century: family, astronomy and botany -- Photographs in printers' ink -- Numbers and Assyrians -- The final years.

Summary:

Features a biographical sketch of the English physicist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes that Talbot was a pioneer in photography.

ISBN:

0091296005
9780091296001

Subject:

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Photographers England Biography.
Photographers England Bibliography.
Photographes Angleterre Bibliographie.
Photographes Angleterre Biographies.
Photographers
England
Photographers Biography England
Talbot, William Henry Fox

Form/genre:

Biography.
Bibliographies
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 144602
Call No.: TR140.T3 (3097)
Status: Available

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