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Camera obscura   Listen
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


Words linked to "Camera obscura" :   chamber


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