camera ob|scu|ra

camera ob|scu|ra
camera ob|scu|ra «ob SKYUR uh»,
a box or small chamber in which images of external objects, received through an aperture, are exhibited on a surface arranged to receive them: »

The camera obscura is used for sketching large objects, for exhibition purposes, etc. The camera made its first appearance not as an instrument for making pictures, but as the camera obscura or dark chamber, a device that attempted no more than to project an inverted image upon a screen (Scientific American).

╂[< New Latin camera obscura dark chamber < Latin camera + obscura dark, obscure]

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