GK
INVENTIONS
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Read this sentence from the article.Another invention that has changed our way of living is photography.The word photography comes from the Greek roots phos meaning “light, “ and graph meaning “draw” or “write.” The meaning of photography is
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making a picture using light.
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making a picture using paints.
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making a picture using a laser.
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making a picture drawing with pencils.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Transcript. The word photography is derived from the Greek word “photos, ‘’ meaning light, and “graphos, ‘’ drawing. Modern photography traces its roots back to the camera obscura, a drawing aid artists and scientists used to record images as early as the eleventh century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Etymology. The word photograph was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek (phos), meaning “light, ‘’ and (graphê), meaning “drawing, writing, ‘’ together meaning “drawing with light."
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