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Definition of Heliotypy
1. n. A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Definition of Heliotypy
1. Noun. A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heliotypy
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Medical Definition of Heliotypy
1. A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliotypy
Literary usage of Heliotypy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"The plates are now being reproduced in heliotypy (reduced to quarto size from
original and early folio impressions) by ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"The whole, indeed, is a triumph of modern printing, heliotypy, and editing—the
drawings particularly being reproduced with marvellous clearness and fidelity ..."
3. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke, Clarence Cook (1877)
"Beside the American reproduction of this series in heliotypy, already mentioned,
we must speak of a later copy made by PW van de Weyer, Utrecht. ..."
4. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.: His Personal History by Samuel Smiles (1894)
"... partner in the London and Middlesex Bank, and the other to devote himself to
chemical and scientific pursuits—among others, to heliotypy or photography. ..."
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