Abstract
Abstract In an effort to make his invention of negative-positive paper photography known in Europe, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) sent photogenic drawings to several Italian scientists in 1839 and 1840. Among the recipients of specimens of Talbot's new art were Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869), Professor of botany at the University of Bologna; Michele Tenore (1780–1861), Director of the Botanic Garden in Naples; and the renowned optician, microscopic biologist, and astronomer Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1868) (figure 1), who was Director of the astronomical observatory of the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence.1
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