Regent's University London Library
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INTRODUCTION: TALBOT AND HIS ARCHIVE -- Beyond Photography / Chitra Ramalingam -- Lacock Abbey and the Country House Archive / Katrina Dean -- MODELS FOR INVESTIGATION -- Talbot's First Lens: Botanical Vision as an Exact Science / Anne Secord -- ""Merely a Speculation of the Mind""? William Henry Fox Talbot and Mathematics / June Barrow-Green -- In the Shadow of Scott: Talbot and the Wizard of the North / Graham Smith -- INVENTION AND DISCOVERY -- Nature as Drawing Mistress / Herta Wolf -- Talbot's Art of Discovery / Vered Maimon -- ""The Caxton of Photography"": Talbots Etchings of Light / Larry J. Schaaf -- INSTITUTIONS AND NETWORKS -- Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment / Eleanor Robson -- From Photographic Science to Scientific Photography: Talbot and Decipherment at the British Museum around 1850 / Mirjam Brusius -- ""The Most Transitory of Things"": Talbot and the Science of Instantaneous Vision / Chitra Ramalingam -- Commentary / Simon Schaffer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age-- a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies. Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines-- including historians of science, art, and photography-- broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science""--Publisher's description.

2021"