Giphantia by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche
"Giphantia" by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche is a novel published in 1760. The title is an anagram of the author's given name. In this remarkable work, the author envisions a process strikingly similar to photography—nearly a century before its invention. Elementary spirits demonstrate a technique for capturing and fixing reflected light rays onto canvas using a viscous substance, creating permanent images that mirrors cannot retain. This prescient vision describes pictures made
"in the twinkle of an eye" that time cannot damage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François, 1722-1774 |
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| Title |
Giphantia Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giphantie |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Utopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- 18th century |
| Subject | Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 60058 |
| Release Date | Aug 4, 2019 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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