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Magic lantern

The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, is an early type of image projector that uses pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs—on transparent plates, usually made of glass, one or more lenses, and a light source. Because a single lens inverts an image projected through it, as in the phenomenon which inverts the image of a…

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related to External links · 52
Magic lantern → Academy, Ancestors, August, Australia Archived, Boggs Beale, Boggs Beale Collection, ChennaiUniversity, Cinema Archived, Cleveland Public Library's Digital, Collection, CollectionLUCERNA, Collections, Connecticut Archives, February, Gallery, Harry Ransom CenterCinema, Historical, Its Management, JapanLantern Slide Collection, July
related to Walgensten, the Dane · 20
Magic lantern → Athanasius Kircher, Christiaan Huygens, Copenhagen, Correspondence, Death, Denmark, From, Gotland, He, In, Italian, King Frederick III, Leiden, Lyon, Paris, Rome, The, This, Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten, Walgensten
related to Dissolving views · 17
Magic lantern → An, De Philipsthal, Diorama, Endor, England, He, Ireland, London, Paris, Paul, Philipsthal, Samuel, The, This, Typical, While, Witch
related to Christiaan Huygens · 15
Magic lantern → Ars Magna Lucis, As, Athanasius Kircher's, Christiaan Huygens, Christiaan's, Constantijn, Constantijn Huygens, Cornelis Drebbel, Drebbel, Dutch, French, He, Huygens, The, Umbrae
related to Possible German origins: Wiesel and Griendel · 15
Magic lantern → Augsburg, Germany, Griendel, Huygens, Huygens's, It, Johann Christoph Kohlhans, Johann Franz Griendel, Johann Wiesel, Johann Zahn, Nürnberg, There, This, Walgensten's, Wiesel's
related to Phantasmagoria · 13
Magic lantern → Argand, Cagiostro-esque Ghost Apparitions, Cagliostoischen Geister-Erscheinungen, Europe, He, It, Phantasmagoria, Phylidor, Schröpfer-esque, Schröpferischen, Showmen, The, Vienna
related to Today · 13
Magic lantern → Because, Europe, European, It, June, May, Million Pictures, Museum, Of, Padua, Precinema, Some, The
related to Choreutoscope and phenakistiscope-type systems · 12
Magic lantern → Duboscq, Greenwich, It, John Beale, Kinetoscope, Royal Polytechnic, The, The Choreutoscope, These, Thomas Ross, Versions, Wheel
related to Camera obscura · 11
Magic lantern → AD, BC, Constantijn Huygens, Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch, Gaspar Schott's, German Jesuit, It, Magia, The, This
related to Early adopters · 11
Magic lantern → Before, Christiaan Huygens, Despite, Huygens, In, Parisian, Petit, Pierre Petit, The, This, Walgensten

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