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Watching the World in a Dark Room
The Early Modern Camera Obscura

By Julie Park

Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura.

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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