heliography
- a word derived from heliograph.
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The photographs are made using heliography — “sun writing,” a term coined by 19th century French photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce — a technique akin to etching with light-sensitive materials on reflective pewter plates.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
But the memory is etched into daily life, as surely as it is in Charrière’s startling heliography.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023
He called his process "heliography," helios being the Greek word for sun.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
A treatise on the sublime science of heliography, satisfactorily demonstrating our great orb of light, the sun, to be absolutely no other than a body of ice!
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
"I wish Miss Young would teach us heliography next term," said Honor.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
