fox-talbot

Updated: May 1, 2025

Fox-Talbot, when four scholars, one being Mr. Talbot himself and the others General Rawlinson, Professor Hincks, and Professor Oppert, laid before the Royal Asiatic Society their independent interpretations of a hitherto untranslated Assyrian text.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4

Fox-Talbot, in England, Professor Jules Oppert, in Paris, and Professor Julian Schrader, in Germany, though a host of other scholars soon entered the field. This great linguistic feat was accomplished about the middle of the nineteenth century.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4