Quote of the day
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Henry Fox Talbot
Born: February 11, 1800
Died: September 17, 1877 (aged 77)
Bio: William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Known for:
- The Pencil of Nature (1844)
- Specimens and Marvels
- English etymologies (1847)