Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François 1722-1774 creator text utu 2019 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Utopias -- Fiction French fiction -- 18th century Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60058 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60058 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134401.0 60058