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sciagrapher rare.|saɪˈægrəfə(r)|
Also 7 scio-.
[f. Gr. σκιᾱγράϕ-ος, later σκιογράϕος (f. σκιά shadow + -γράϕος depicting, etc.) + -er1: see -grapher.]
One who practises sciagraphy.
1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 205 The complete Sciographer can cause the Sun to trace out his way upon the Earth; and by the Shadow of an Axis, to point out to us those Atomes of Time into which our artificial Day is..divided. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §136. 113 Apollodorus of Athens, the sciagrapher, was the first who directed a deeper study to the gradations of light and shade. |