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Camera Obscura, English, c. 1710

Inventory Number 75945


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.75945

Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Object type
Camera obscura
Dimensions
Height: 8.9cm Width: 28.2cm Depth: 9cm Weight: 0.5kg
Inventory No
75945
Accession Number
1925-43

Description

Camera obscura, English, unsigned and undated, c.1710. Wood, gold-tooled vellum covered tube.

A device for projecting an outside scene on to a viewing screen within the instrument.