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Optography
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Optography, n. [Optic + -graphy.].
The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple , under Visual. [1913 Webster]
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