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Peckham, Johannes: Prima Pars, [Propositio] 5: [On the analogy of eye & camera obscura]. In: Idem: Perspectiva communis. Venice 1504, pp. 2-10, esp. p. 2[b] et seq. (bibliogr.)

1504

Scheiner, Christoph: [On the eye as a camera obscura]. In: Idem: Oculus, hoc est, Fundamentum opticum: in quo ex accurata oculi anatome, abstrusarum experientiarum sedula pervestigatione ... Innsbruck 1619, pp. 32-34. (bibliogr.)

1619

Leurechon, Jean: [On the Camera Obscura]. In: Idem: Mathematicall recreations: or a collection of many problemes extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers, as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works etc. London 1653, pp.6-9. (bibliogr.)

1653

Schott, Gaspar: Praelusio III. Idealis, Sive De oculi similitudine, modoque introducendi species visibiles objectorum in locum obscurum per foramen exiguum. In: Idem: Magia universalis naturae et artis, Sive Recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem activorum cum passivis, admirandorum effectuum spectacula, abditarum[que] inventionum miracula, ad varios humanae vitae usus, eruuntur: Opus Quadripartitum, Bd. 1: Optica (Liber II). Würzburg 1657, pp. 74-83. (bibliogr.)

1657

Schott, Gaspar: Praelusio IV. Optica, sive De Visione, seu modo videndi. In: Idem: Magia universalis naturae et artis, Sive Recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem activorum cum passivis, admirandorum effectuum spectacula, abditarum[que] inventionum miracula, ad varios humanae vitae usus, eruuntur: Opus Quadripartitum, Bd. 1: Optica (Liber II). Würzburg 1657, pp. 83-91. (bibliogr.)

1657

Schott, Gaspar: Parastasis IV-VIII [Camera Obscura Principle]. In: Idem: Magia universalis naturae et artis, Sive Recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem activorum cum passivis, admirandorum effectuum spectacula, abditarum[que] inventionum miracula, ad varios humanae vitae usus, eruuntur: Opus Quadripartitum, Bd. 1: Optica (Liber IV). Würzburg 1657, pp. 196-206. (bibliogr.)

1657

Descartes, René: Des Images qui se forment sur le Fond de L'Oeil. In: Idem: La Dioptrique. In: Idem: Discours de la Methode pour bien conduire sa Raison, et chercher la Verité dans le Sciences. Plus la Dioptrique, les Meterores, la Mechanique, et la Musique, qui font des effais de cette Methode. Paris 1668, pp. 92-105. (bibliogr.)

1668

Hooke, Robert: [On the Camera Obscura]. In: Idem: A Continuation of the former Subject of Light. Being the Lectures read in June, 1681. In: Idem: The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke. Containing his Cutlerian Lectures, and other Discourses, Read at the Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society. Published by Richard Waller. London 1705, p. 127 et seq., plate 1. (bibliogr.)

1705

Martin, Benjamin: Of the Camera Obscura, or darkened Chamber, and the Instruments pertaining thereto; by which Means the Images, or Pictures of external Objects, are curiously painted in their natural Colours and Motions. In: Idem: Of Dioptric Instruments and Machines (Part III). In: Idem: A new and compendious System of Optics. London 1740, pp. 158-173, Plate XXIII. (bibliogr.)

1740

Ledermüller, Martin Frobenius: [on the Camera Obscura and the solar microscope]. In: Idem: Nachlese seiner mikroskopischen Gemüths- und Augen- Ergötzung. Nürnberg 1762, pp. 6-8, Plate I, II. (bibliogr.)

1762

Ledermüller, Martin Frobenius: [on the Camera Obscura and the solar microscope]. In: Idem: Nachlese seiner mikroskopischen Gemüths- und Augen- Ergötzung. Nürnberg 1762, pp. 41-44, Plate XXI, Plate XXII. (bibliogr.)

1762

Algarotti, Francesco: Dell’uso della camera ottica. In: Saggio sopra la pittura. Livorno 1763, pp. 66-71. (bibliogr.)

1763

Martin, Benjamin: Dialogue X. Of the genuine Construction of Reflecting Telescopes, and also of a new proportional Camera Obscura. In: Idem: The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy, in a continued survey of the works of nature and art. Vol.II. London 1763, pp. 246-254. (bibliogr.)

1763

Priestley, Joseph: [On the Camera Obscura]. In: Idem: The History and the Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light and Colours. London 1772, pp. 34-39, Plate II, esp. fig.14. (bibliogr.)

1772

Harris, Joseph: [On the Camera Obscura]. In: Idem: A Treatise of Optics: Containing Elements of the Science. London 1775, pp. 61-64, 264-282. (bibliogr.)

1775

Walpole, Horace: The Delineator. [Letter] To the Rev. William Mason, Strawberry Hill, Sept. 21, 1777. In: Idem: Selected Letters, Edited by William Hadley. London 1959, p. 524 et seq., no. CCCCXXIII. (bibliogr.)

1777

Reynolds, Joshua: Letter to Edmund Burke. Hague, August 14, 1781. In: Hilles, Frederick W. (Ed.): Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Cambridge 1929, pp. 83-85. (bibliogr.)

1781

Valenciennes, Pierre-Henri: De la chambre noire. In: Idem: Élémens de perspective pratique à l'usage des artistes suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage. Paris 1800, pp. 207-209. (bibliogr.)

1800

Valenciennes, Pierre-Henri: [On the Camera Obscura] In: De la chambre noire pour la couleur. In: Idem: Élémens de perspective pratique à l'usage des artistes suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage. Paris 1800, pp. 295-299. (bibliogr.)

1800

Bestelmeier, Georg Hieronimus: Camera Obscura (No. 79). In: Magazin von verschiedenen Kunst- und anderen nützlichen Sachen, zur lehrreichen und angenehmen Unterhaltung der Jugend, als auch für Liebhaber der Künste und Wissenschaften. Erstes Stück. Neue verbesserte Auflage. Nürnberg 1803, p. 9. (bibliogr.)

1803

Sterne, Laurence: [on the Camera Obscura]. In Idem: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gent, Vol. I. In Idem: The Works of Laurence Sterne in Four Volumes. London 1803, Chapter XXIII, p. 86. (bibliogr.)

1803

Leyser, Ernst von : Erläuternde Worte zu der Camera clara dioptrica; erfunden von Baron Ernst v. Leyser. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 26 (1842) 407-421, plate III, fig. 1-3. (bibliogr.)

1842

Varley, Cornelius: Camera Obscura. In: Idem: A Treatise on Optical Drawing Instruments. Also: A Method of Preserving Pictures in Oil and in Water Colours. London 1845. (bibliogr.)

1845

Guillemin, Amédée: Réfraction de la lumière. Prismes et lentilles. [On the Camera Obscura]. In: Idem: Les Phénomènes de la Physique. Paris 1868, Book III, pp. 325-347. (bibliogr.)

1868

Atkinson, Edmund: Camera Obscura (No. 376-378). In: Idem: Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons. London 1875, pp. 381-386. (bibliogr.)

1875