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FOX TALBOT
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• FOX TALBOT (noun)
The noun FOX TALBOT has 1 sense:
1. English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Familiarity information: FOX TALBOT used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot
Instance hypernyms:
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)
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"«He who teaches himself hath a fool for a teacher», but he who does not teach himself has no teachers at all." (Christopher Berkeley)
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"Some die; others bloom." (Corsican proverb)