Camera obscura, c1840. Artist: Anon

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Camera obscura, c1840. The illustration shows how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees (B), passed through a meniscus lens between F and C, and the image thrown onto the table below. From The Magazine of Science. (London, 1840).

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