Illustration of the principle of the camera obscura, 1671. Artist: Unknown

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Illustration of the principle of the camera obscura, 1671. Showing how the image of the lighted face on the left appears inverted on the wall of the darkened chamber on the right. From Ars Magna by Athanasius Kircher. (Amsterdam, 1671).

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