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Camera lucida   /kˈæmərə lutʃˈidə/   Listen
Camera lucida

noun
1.
An optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it.





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"Camera lucida" Quotes from Famous Books



... He was very fond of music and knew a great number of songs; and he was well acquainted with the theory of music: but he was no performer. He did not sketch freehand but made excellent drawings with his Camera Lucida. ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy
... whose direction an excellent plaster cast was made for Sir Charles Lyell. It is upon and from a duplicate of that cast that my own observations and the accompanying figures, the outlines of which are copied from very accurate Camera lucida drawings, by my friend Mr. Busk, reduced to one-half of the ...
— On Some Fossil Remains of Man • Thomas H. Huxley


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