Leonardo da Vinci's Camera Obscura (projector). Re-construction from a drawing in the Codex Atlanticus, Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), familiar with the work of Alhazen in Latin translation and after an extensive study of optics and human vision, wrote the oldest known clear description of the camera obscura in mirror writing in a notebook in 1502

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