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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Lacock Abbey, England
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William Henry Fox Talbot was a chemist who was the first to develop the photographic negative.

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In 1840, William Henry Fox Talbot developed the calotype, an early photographic process that improved on the daguerreotype. 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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