Quote of the day
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself
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)







