Illustration of the camera obscura principle from James Ayscough's A short account of the eye and nature of vision (1755 fourth edition). A camera obscura is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1755_james_ayscough.jpg Original image: https://archive.org/details/b30373177/page/n33/mode/2up
Watching the World in a Dark Room
The Early Modern Camera Obscura
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