Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
DAGUERREOTYPE
daguerreotype
(noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)
An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.
Verb
daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)
(transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
Source: Wiktionary
Da*guerre"o*type, n. Etym: [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.]
1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
2. The process of taking such pictures.
Da*guerre"o*type, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Daguerreotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping.]
1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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