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Camera obscura

noun
1.
A darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.





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"Camera obscura" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of doors, came into the dark chamber, through this narrow chink, and were painted over Benjamin's head. It is greatly to his credit, that he discovered the scientific principle of this phenomenon, and, by means of it, constructed a Camera Obscura, or Magic Lantern, out of a hollow box. This was of great advantage to him ...
— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... a Paper, which is accommodated to receive them; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance; turning his little Tent round by degrees, till he hath designed the whole Aspect of the Field." [Reliqui Wottonianae, (london 1672), p. 300.]—In fact he hath a CAMERA OBSCURA, and is exhibiting the same for the delectation of Imperial gentlemen lounging that way. Mr. John invents such toys, writes almanacs, practises medicine, for good reasons; his encouragement from ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle


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