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William Henry Fox Talbot

(born Feb. 11, 1800, Melbury Sampford, Dorset, Eng. — died Sept. 17, 1877, Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire) English chemist and pioneer photographer. In 1840 he developed the calotype, an early photographic process that improved on the daguerreotype; it involved the use of a photographic negative from which multiple prints could be made. In 1835 he published his first article documenting a photographic discovery, that of the paper negative. His The Pencil of Nature (1844 – 46) was the first book with photographic illustrations. Talbot also published many articles on mathematics, astronomy, and physics.

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