![]() The discovery of the camera obscura ("dark chamber" in Latin) that provides an image of a scene dates back to ancient China. Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries, relating to seeing an image and capturing the image. The inventors Nicéphore Niépce, Henry Fox Talbot, and Louis Daguerre seem not to have known or used the word "photography", but referred to their processes as "Heliography" (Niépce), "Photogenic Drawing"/"Talbotype"/"Calotype" (Talbot), and "Daguerreotype" (Daguerre). The astronomer Sir John Herschel is also credited with coining the word, independent of Talbot, in 1839. It was signed "J.M.", believed to have been Berlin astronomer Johann von Maedler. The article is the earliest known occurrence of the word in public print. The German newspaper Vossische Zeitung of 25 February 1839 contained an article entitled Photographie, discussing several priority claims – especially Henry Fox Talbot's – regarding Daguerre's claim of invention. The first use of the word by the Franco-Brazilian inventor became widely known after the research of Boris Kossoy in 1980. This claim is widely reported but is not yet largely recognized internationally. Hercules Florence, a French painter and inventor living in Campinas, Brazil, used the French form of the word, photographie, in private notes which a Brazilian historian believes were written in 1834. Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently. The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός ( phōtós), genitive of φῶς ( phōs), "light" and γραφή ( graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".
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