PHOTOGRAPHY

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 11

n. Fot-o2g'ra2f-i2. From tf>o>s, light, and ypd fi.v, to describe. Fr,, photographic. Ger., Photographic. The art of producing pictorial representations of objects by throwing the rays of light from them on a chemically sensitive surface. [a. 48.] PHOTOH^ [s. 260]