[Sca-cooks] camera obscura
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 21 15:46:32 PDT 2005
Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Serena mentioned:
>
>> I have been doing research on the Camera Obscura which led me to
>> peruse the text "Natural Magick" by Giambattista della Porta.
>
>
> I have a small amount of info about camera obscura in this
> Florilegium file in the UNCATALOGED section:
> p-cameras-msg (14K) 7/30/98 Notes on period camera obscura.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/UNCAT/p-cameras-msg.html
>
> Perhaps there is something in there which might be of use to you in
> this research. If you end up writing up your research as an article
> or as an A&S entry, I'd love to consider it for the Florilegium. Or
> even any bibliographic notes or quick message type comments that you
> might want to see added to this message file.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
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> Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
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I don't remember further information but, when I visited Edinburgh some
years back, there was a building that had a room in it that had
historically functioned as a camera obscura. Didn't have the time to
get to see it, but the idea of a room-size camera was a little
mind-boggling. Then I remembered that, IIRC, the Italian word for room
is "camera"...or is it Latin? So it makes sense that these things were
an actual room.
Kiri
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