calotype

William Henry Fox Talbot's process to make negatives on paper
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calotype

Summary

calotype is a photographic technique[1]. calotype draws 172 Wikipedia views per month (photographic_technique category, ranking #13 of 70).[2]

Key Facts

  • calotype is credited with the discovery of William Henry Fox Talbot[3].
  • calotype's instance of is recorded as photographic technique[4].
  • calotype's GND ID is recorded as 4184378-2[5].
  • calotype's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85019035[6].
  • calotype's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 121251413[7].
  • calotype's subclass of is recorded as salt print[8].
  • calotype's Commons category is recorded as Calotypes[9].
  • calotype's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75204[10].
  • calotype's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0kybl[11].
  • calotype's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX4836078[12].
  • calotype's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300053484[13].
  • calotype's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 771[14].
  • calotype's product or material produced is recorded as calotype[15].
  • calotype's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0087455[16].
  • calotype's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17].
  • calotype's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • calotype's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/calotype[19].
  • calotype's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as calotype[20].
  • calotype's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as fotografie/calotypie[21].
  • calotype's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kalotypi[22].
  • calotype's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779306639[23].
  • calotype's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 13420[24].
  • calotype's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 46471[25].
  • calotype's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as tecnicas/1028784[26].
  • calotype's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as calotip[27].

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Works and Contributions

calotype is credited with the discovery of William Henry Fox Talbot[3].

Why It Matters

calotype draws 172 Wikipedia views per month (photographic_technique category, ranking #13 of 70).[2] calotype has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] calotype is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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