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Definition of Fox Talbot
1. Noun. English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor, Lensman, Photographer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Talbot
Literary usage of Fox Talbot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Some of these papers are verv remarkable, as those on Definite Integrals, and
show Fox Talbot to have been a mathematician of no small power. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"... to receive a report from the Council respecting the intention of Mr. Fox Talbot,
in reference to the renewal of his patents. We understand that the Rev. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"By H. Fox Talbot, Esq. 8vo. London, 1846. \\7^ITHOUT venturing to say of Etymology
what South said of the study of the Apocalypse, that 'it found a man mad ..."
4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1837)
"By Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., MP, FRS The general equation to parabolic curves, (namely,
nu = o" ; where u is the abscissa and i; the ordinate,) gives for the ..."
5. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... Fox Talbot in " Records of the Past," First Series.) ISHTAR was the goddess
of Love, answering to the Venus of the Latins and the Aphrodite of the ..."
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