[ad. mod.L. stereographia, f. Gr. στερεό-ς solid + -γραφία: see -GRAPHY. Cf. F. stéréographie.]

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  1.  The art of delineating or representing the forms of solid bodies on a plane, as in perspective; in quot. 1860, stereoscopic photography.

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1700.  Moxon, Math. Dict., Steriography, or the Description or Drawing the Forms of Solids upon a Plain.

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1738.  J. Hamilton (title), Stereography; or a compleat body of perspective in all its branches.

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1842.  Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Stereography, that branch of solid geometry which demonstrates the properties and shows the construction of all regularly defined solids.

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1860.  Mrs. P. Byrne, Undercurrents Overlooked, I. 240. The animadversions of this journal are directed against the abuse of photography and stereography.

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  2.  See quot. (Cf. STEREOGRAPH 2.)

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1886.  Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., II. 25/2. Graphic representation of the skull, or stereography, is a branch of craniometry by which the forms of the diverse curves of the head are traced, after measurement, on paper, or otherwise figured.

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