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... Camera Lucida - A Speculation - An eventful Evening - Mr . Faraday's Announcement — His closing Words - Fox Talbot's Calotype Process - Robert Vernon's Portrait - A curious Coincidence- A Royal Institution Lecture . 47 CHAPTER V ...
... Camera Lucida - A Speculation - An eventful Evening - Mr . Faraday's Announcement — His closing Words - Fox Talbot's Calotype Process - Robert Vernon's Portrait - A curious Coincidence- A Royal Institution Lecture . 47 CHAPTER V ...
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... Camera - Negatives taken - The Age of the Beeches considered in a Letter to the Times - A Discovery -The Beeches put up for Sale -- Subsequently bought by the Corporation of the City of London — Girth of some of the Trees " Autumn ...
... Camera - Negatives taken - The Age of the Beeches considered in a Letter to the Times - A Discovery -The Beeches put up for Sale -- Subsequently bought by the Corporation of the City of London — Girth of some of the Trees " Autumn ...
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... Camera Experiences - The House Party - Rustic Sports -A Donkey Race - The Bishop's Sympathy for a Lad who did not Win — How he spoilt a Good Story - The Lockinge House Murillo Interesting History . PAGE 223 CHAPTER XXIII . The Autotype ...
... Camera Experiences - The House Party - Rustic Sports -A Donkey Race - The Bishop's Sympathy for a Lad who did not Win — How he spoilt a Good Story - The Lockinge House Murillo Interesting History . PAGE 223 CHAPTER XXIII . The Autotype ...
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... Camera Lucida― A Speculation - An eventful Evening - Mr . Faraday's Announcement -His closing Words -- Fox Talbot's Calotype Process - Robert Vernon's Portrait - A curious Coincidence - A Royal Institution Lecture . As previously stated ...
... Camera Lucida― A Speculation - An eventful Evening - Mr . Faraday's Announcement -His closing Words -- Fox Talbot's Calotype Process - Robert Vernon's Portrait - A curious Coincidence - A Royal Institution Lecture . As previously stated ...
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... camera lucida , and looking at the brilliant and distinct picture its prism had formed upon the paper beneath it - how often did I wonder whether , within the realms of chemical science , there existed means by which that picture as I ...
... camera lucida , and looking at the brilliant and distinct picture its prism had formed upon the paper beneath it - how often did I wonder whether , within the realms of chemical science , there existed means by which that picture as I ...
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