Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HE-LI-OG'RA-PHY
HE-LI-O-GRAPH'ICHE-LI-OL'A-TER
HE-LI-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. ηλιος and γραφω.]
The art of fixing images of objects by the Camera obscura. [This name is preferable to that of Daguerreotype, – which see.]
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