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Noun- An early pictoral process producing an engraving on a metal plate coated with an asphalt preparation.

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  • They also described Niepce's earlier processes, heliography and the physautotype , but presented the daguerreotype alone as having a future.
  • "I wish Miss Young would teach us heliography next term," said Honor.
  • 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!
  • Far more conflicting are the theories as to his constitution, of which indeed we may truly say very little was known before the application of photography and the spectroscope...
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