Author:William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot
(1800–1877)

Henry Fox Talbot, ca. 1844 daguerreotype by Claudet

Works

• On the Properties of a certain Curve derived from the Equilateral Hyperbola, in Gergonne's ‘Annales Mathématiques’ (1822, xiii. 242–7)
• Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves without the aid of the artist's pencil, Philosophical Magazine. 1839, xiv. pp. 196–211.
• The Pencil of Nature (1844–6), in six parts
• Legendary Tales, in verse and prose, (1830)
• Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838–9) two numbers only.
• The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839)
• English Etymologies (1847)
• Assyrian Texts translated (1856)
• On the Improvement of the Telescope, (1842), British Association (Report, pp. 16–17)
• On a new Method of estimating the Distance of some of the Fixed Stars. (1871) British Association (Report, pp. 34–36)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• "Researches in the Integral Calculus" in Philosophical Transactions, 126, pp. 177–215
• "Researches in the Integral Calculus" in Philosophical Transactions, 127, pp. 1–18
• "On the optical phenomena of certain crystals" in Philosophical Transactions, 127, pp. 25–27
• "Further observations on the optical phenomena of crystals" in Philosophical Transactions, 127, pp. 29–35

Works about Talbot

• "Talbot, William Henry Fox," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Talbot, William Henry Fox," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Talbot, William Henry Fox," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)