[Sca-cooks] camera obscura

[Elaine Koogler]

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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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    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