Hércules Florence
Monegasque-Brazilian painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence (February 29, 1804 – March 27, 1879) was a Monegasque-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre (but six years after Nicéphore Niépce)[1], using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. According to Kossoy, who examined Florence's notes,[2] he referred to his process, in French, as photographie in 1834, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography.
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