Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye `recorded` the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims` eyes in several ......
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• (n.) The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual.
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Op·tog'ra·phy noun [
Opt ic +
-graphy .]
(Physiol.) The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See
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