stereography
(stɛriːˈɒgrəfɪ)
[ad. mod.L. stereographia, f. Gr. στερεό-ς solid + -γραϕία: see -graphy. Cf. F. stéréographie.]
1. The art of delineating or representing the forms of solid bodies on a plane, as in perspective; in quot. 1860, stereoscopic photography.
| 1700 Moxon Math. Dict., Steriography, or the Description or Drawing the Forms of Solids upon a Plain. 1738 J. Hamilton (title) Stereography; or a compleat body of perspective in all its branches. 1842 Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Stereography, that branch of solid geometry which demonstrates the properties and shows the construction of all regularly defined solids. 1860 Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurrents I. 240 The animadversions of this journal are directed against the abuse of photography and stereography. |
2. See quot. (Cf. stereograph 2.)
| 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. |