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source of illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, 1. An Abbey and Ancestors; 2. Minority, Cambridge and the 1820s; 3. The Creative Decade; 4. Photogenic Drawing; 5. The Calotype; 6. Photography: Of Priority, Plagiarism and Patents; 6. Applied Science and Etymology; 8. Mid-Century: Family, Astronomy and Botany; 9. Photographs in Printers' Ink; 10. Numbers and Assyrians; 11. The Final Years; notes, appendices: i. genealogies, ii. major sources, iii. notebooks, iv. published works, v. published papers, vi. patents, index. "In 1839 Willaim Henry Fox Talbot gave the world the negative-positive system of photography which, with subsequent modifications, is still with us today. He also evolved systems of photo-engraving which pointed the way towards the photo-mechnical reproduction techniques of the twentieth century." from the jacket flap.
