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单词 skiagrapher
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skiagraphern.

Brit. /skʌɪˈaɡrəfə/, U.S. /skaɪˈæɡrəfər/
Forms:

α. 1600s 1900s– sciographer Brit. /sʌɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /saɪˈɑɡrəfər/, 1900s– skiographer.

β. 1800s– sciagrapher Brit. /sʌɪˈaɡrəfə/, U.S. /saɪˈæɡrəfər/, 1900s– skiagrapher.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: Greek σκιά , -grapher comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek σκιά shadow (see scio- comb. form) + -grapher comb. form, after skiagraphy n. and (in sense 2) Hellenistic Greek σκιαγράϕος (later σκιογράϕος, attested in variant readings in the Septuagint) perspective-painter, scene-painter.In quot. 1847 at sense 2 after German Sciagraph (1835 in ed. 2 of the work translated; ed. 1 (1830) has Greek σκιαγράϕος).
1. A person skilled at making sundials and in the art of dialling (dialling n. 1a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > one who makes or uses
shadowist1635
gnomonist1688
skiagrapher1690
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 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.
1935 T. W. Cole Classif. Church Scratch-dials 7 At Hillesden (Bucks) an ingenious sciagrapher set himself an unusual task by carefully hollowing out a recess in the stonework of a buttress.
1994 Brit. Jrnl. Middle Eastern Stud. 21 277 Seasoned sciagraphers..will surely regret that the opportunity was not taken to provide an extended commentary on this topic [sc. sundials].
2007 A. Brooks Pevsner's Worcs. (rev. ed.) 259 Large sundial, nave s wall; dated 1841, signed Thomas Davis, sciagrapher, of Inkberrow.
2. Art. An artist skilled at using shading to convey perspective.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one skilled in optics > [noun] > in perspective
skiagrapher1847
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > light and shade > [noun] > shade > delineation of > one who
shadower1842
skiagrapher1847
1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art §136. 99 Apollodorus of Athens, the sciagrapher [Ger. der Sciagraph], was the first who directed a deeper study to the gradations of light and shade.
1957 V. Nabokov Pnin iv. 98 Lads..would spend years grinding colors in the workshop of some great Italian skiagrapher.
1995 M. Baxandall Shadows & Enlightenment xxxvii. 132 This is not the sciographer's universe of consistent perspective projections.
3. Medicine. A person skilled in the use of X-rays; = radiographer n. Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > using specific instrument > X-ray techniques
radiographer1896
skiagrapher1896
radiologist1905
lymphangiographer1973
1896 Electr. World 28 Mar. 337/2 The names sciagraph, sciagraphy and sciagrapher are already authorized terms, employed in denoting pictures in light and shadow. They are etymologically correct... We would not then be adding new and unnecessary terms to our dictionaries, nor violating the accepted definitions of terms already in use.
1904 Lit. Digest 16 Jan. 82/1 Dr. H. K. Pancoast, the sciagrapher of the University hospital, noticed that after negroes had been treated for some time with the rays the skin became gradually whiter.
1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Sept. 695/2 L. Herschel Harris,..Honorary Assistant Surgeon and Senior Honorary Skiagrapher, Sydney Hospital.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 7 558/1 By instructing the skiographer to place his film well beyond the last visible tooth.
1970 Pennsylvania Hist. 37 66 Most of the Commonwealth's medical innovators have been technicians (surgeons, skiagraphers, etc.).
2009 Clin. Orthopaedics 469 2763/2 In 1899 was also appointed as the first ‘skiagrapher’ (radiologist) at Boston Children's Hospital.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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