Today is a day when a term “photography” was used for the first time. On the 14th of March 1839 in London Sir John Herschel had coined the word and introduced it to the public at his Royal Society lecture.

Sir John Herschel — an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer.

The word “photography” was created from the Greek roots φῶς (phōs) = “light” and γραφή (graphé) = “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”. It’s interesting that in Russian language a word “svetopis”, what means the same “drawing with light”, was used in a sense of “photography” for along time.

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