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Name : Muhammad Reevanza NIM :2291471063 1A Photography UAS ENGLISH ETIMOLOGY IN PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS (Reading 1) The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (ph ō tos), genitive of φ ῶ ς (ph ō s), "light" and γραφή (graph é ) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light ” Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently. Hercules Florence, a French painter and inventor living in Campinas, Brazil, used the French form of the word, photographie, in private notes which a Brazilian historian believes were written in 1834. Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, is credited in a 1932 German history of photography as having used it in an article published on 25 February 1839 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung. Both of these claims are now widely reported but apparently neither has ever been independently confirmed as ...
