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Engraving depicting a family enjoying a magic lantern show. The apparatus here differs little from that of Kircher in the 17th century, consisting of a metal box with lamp placed in focus
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The art of projecting. A manual of experimentation in physics, chemistry, and natural history, with the porte lumière and magic lantern. Fig The above engraving (Fig. 7) represents the essen-tial conditions
The Magic Lantern in Europe: From the Camera Obscura to the Earliest form of Cinema | Whipple Library
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