01916cam a22003373u 4500 60058 UtSlPG 20260610134401.0 m cr n 260607r2019||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François, 1722-1774 Giphantia : Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World. Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2019 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giphantie Release date is 2019-08-04 Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "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.) Original publication data not identified Utopias -- Fiction French fiction -- 18th century Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60058 100884 100884