Giphantie: Prediction of the Invention of Photography
In 1760, decades before the invention of photography, French author Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche predicted its invention.
In a story titled Giphantie (yes, an anagram of his name), Tiphaigne de la Roche wrote about a race of secret supermen in an imaginary wonderland who could fix a reflected image onto a canvas coated with a sticky substance!
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