capnography 的詞源

此外（最初），亦稱爲 kapnography，即“以煙霧爲材料繪畫的技藝”（或用火焰沉積的碳）。該詞於1871年出自希臘詞彙 kapnos，“煙霧”（參見 capnomancy）和 -graphy。相關詞彙： Capnographic； kapnographic。

Kapnography—if we are called on to christen the new Art—may be said to be the very reverse of photography. In the one, the subtle play and reflexion of light is imprisoned by the magic chemistry of the sunbeam ; in the other the human imagination guides the hand to trace designs on the very type of change and emblem of destruction. To fix the faces seen in the fire, or to delineate the ever-changing forms of the clouds, does not seem to be a more unpromising task, than that of producing Alps and glaciers, forests and châlets, waterfalls and wood-hung streams, out of very vapour of combustion—the smoke of a candle. [The Art-Journal, vol. X, 1871]

如果我們要命名這種最新的藝術，則應該稱爲 Kapnography。這與攝影截然相反。其中，通過魔幻的光學化學過程固定了光的微妙運動和反射； 而在另一種情況下，人類的想象引導手的運動，在滅亡的符號和變化的原材料上勾勒出設計。如同在火焰中看到的臉或是描述雲朵不斷變化的形態一樣，製作阿爾卑斯山以及冰川、森林和 châlets，瀑布和林中流水，似乎同樣沒有希望，然而，這一切都可以從燃料燃燒後的煙中得到體現。——引自《藝術雜誌》1871年第十期