ISBN10: 0300179340, ISBN13: 9780300179347, [publisher: New Haven & London: Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies of British Art, 2013.] Hardcover Studies in British Art, 23] Contents: INTRODUCTION: TALBOT AND HIS ARCHIVE -- Beyond Photography / Chitra Ramalingam -- Lacock Abbey and the Country House Archive / Katrina Dean -- MODELS FOR INVESTIGATION -- Talbot's First Lens: Botanical Vision as an Exact Science / Anne Secord -- "Merely a Speculation of the Mind"? William Henry Fox Talbot and Mathematics / June Barrow-Green -- In the Shadow of Scott: Talbot and the Wizard of the North / Graham Smith -- INVENTION AND DISCOVERY -- Nature as Drawing Mistress / Herta Wolf -- albot's Art of Discovery / Vered Maimon -- "The Caxton of Photography": Talbots Etchings of Light / Larry J. Schaaf -- INSTITUTIONS AND NETWORKS -- Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment / Eleanor Robson -- From Photographic Science to Scientific Photography: Talbot and Decipherment at the British Museum around 1850 / Mirjam Brusius -- "The Most Transitory of Things": Talbot and the Science of Instantaneous Vision / Chitra Ramalingam -- Commentary / Simon Schaffer. 250 x 175 mm. viii, 308 pp., 109 illustrations in colour. [ISBN: 978-0300179347] Hardbound. A fine bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper
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