June Barrow-Green
June Barrow-Green is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University.
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“Merely a Speculation of the Mind”?: William Henry Fox Talbot and Mathematics
June Barrow-Green
Description: William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
“MR Fox Talbot’s name is so completely associated with the invention of photography that his mathematical powers are now almost completely unknown except to the few mathematicians who have attended to the subject of elliptic functions.”Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 38 (1878): 148. Thus...
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June Barrow-Green
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2013 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.67-94
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00251.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21232
Chapter subject tags:Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877MathematicsPhotography--Great Britain--HistoryPhotography--History--19th century