| 单词 | camera obscura |
| 例句 | Ms. Leonard is certainly not the first contemporary artist to employ the camera obscura — see, for instance, photographs by Abelardo Morell — but she emphasizes the technology and the space instead of the final product. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z In another interview, Pierre Fouché tells Chaich that he finds inspiration in the Vermeer painting “The Lacemaker,” and that he’s “drawn to how Vermeer used the camera obscura and traced and toned shadows.” The Saturday gallery: Grandma's knitting infused with fabulousness in 'Queer Threads' 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci, the camera obscura uses sunlight and mirrors to project 360-degree views of the surrounding beaches. This San Francisco hike offers nature, history — and unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Leonard also offers up a sort of ghost twin to the camera obscura: a brightly lighted, blindingly white room of prints made by aiming the camera at the sun. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z The museum’s researchers, however, said the brushstrokes contained no evidence of a link to the camera obscura, a type of pinhole camera. National Gallery of Art Reveals That a Vermeer Is an Imitator 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Thirty-four years later, sitting in her Provincetown studio surrounded by prints of her strikingly ghostly camera obscura work, Ms. Roth said she’s never looked back. Provincetown: Still the Place to Paint and to Party 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z A room for children, meanwhile, is being fitted with a camera obscura that will reflect the seascape on to its walls. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z Ms. Hochstrasser does not mention it, but I would not be surprised to learn that van Aelst used some sort of newfangled optical device like the camera obscura to achieve his often nearly photographic verisimilitude. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z The play upon a known phrase – camera obscura – perfectly suits the author's mournful reflections on the power of photographs following the death of his mother. Ten of the best 2011-07-15T21:54:01Z More openly enchanted are the objects she dispenses to those in need, like the camera obscura she gives her stepdaughter in “Wonder” that focuses only on soul mates. The ‘Good Witch’ Franchise Changes Gears 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z One artist set off with a newfangled camera obscura. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z A 3,375-square-foot, black-and-white camera obscura photograph of an abandoned Marine Corps air station in Southern California. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction But many airports are threatening to be a kind of camera obscura, a simulacrum of a city that, if we’re on a layover, we’ll never see. Airports, Designed for Everyone but the Passenger 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Vermeer almost certainly used a camera obscura to compose his scenes. Photography is the art of our time 2013-01-10T15:39:33Z At the end of the 1980s, improvements in graphics hardware achieved the video game equivalent of Vermeer’s camera obscura. How “Bambi” paved the way for both “Fallout 4″ and “Angry Birds” 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Floor cushions encourage you to stay and meditate on the camera obscura’s strange reversals, watching the projection fade or intensify as the light changes. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z This corbeled beehive dome with an aperture facing south acts as a camera obscura, throwing onto the whitewashed interior an image of forest, clouds and mountain peaks. Review: An Italian Valley Where Nature Meets Art 2010-08-06T13:00:00Z A camera obscura of the street appeared through a hole in a curtain, making the world outside appear on the wall, upside down. With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In fact, it seems very likely Vermeer used a camera obscura in his work. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z Activities this final weekend will include making a camera obscura, constructing model aircraft and taking part in storytelling and a Middle Eastern concert. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 29-May 5 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Weber said Vermeer had probably entered a camera obscura, and “translated that experience into his own art.” The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z What stops this from being another bump-filled haunted house is the camera obscura, which enables Mio to exorcise angry spirits by literally capturing them on film. Project Zero 2 – review 2012-07-07T23:05:26Z Art historians argue over whether Vermeer really used a camera obscura to produce his arrestingly lifelike scenes. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z A camera obscura is typically a dark box with a hole that focuses incoming light onto the box’s inner wall, creating a single sharp image. Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Duchamp From Beyond the Grave 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Instead of film, he uses large sheets of photographic paper that he exposes through a lens opposite — like a camera obscura, or a huge pinhole camera, or a large daguerrotype without sheets of glass. Photographing California with a camera as big as a truck 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z When they lost interest in it, he turned it into a giant camera obscura. House Proud: Jared Handelsman and Portia Munson Make Their Own Museum at Home 2012-09-19T21:51:29Z In particular, he revived an idea first floated in the 1920s that Vermeer made his paintings from inside a room-size camera obscura, a device that operates like a pinhole camera. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z A camera obscura — a precursor to the photographic camera — is an optical device used to project images. Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Chronicles an Attempt to Make One 2014-01-30T23:17:13Z To a child, a box can be a doll’s house or a rocket ship, a camera obscura or a magic carpet sailing down the concrete slides in Golden Gate Park. Cardboard: Environmental scourge or savior? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Artists and scholars dispute whether Vermeer may have made use of a 'camera obscura', a forerunner of the modern photocamera. Largest ever exhibition of Vermeer paintings to open in Amsterdam 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z For his daytime shoots, Morell creates a portable camera obscura with a tripod, a dark cloth and a lens. Van Gogh through a pinhole Midway through the narrative, Ron notices physics devices in one of the schools where he services equipment that remind him of the camera obscura box his physics teacher, Mr. Strauss, had shown. Review | Ken Kalfus gives readers an unsettling portrait of a humbled America 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Vera Lutter is an artist from Germany based in New York who is known for her projects using the camera obscura. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He showed me the camera obscura he kept in his loft. Steve Coogan on Terry Jones: he was the heart and voice of Monty Python 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The festival, which first launched in 2013 features photos taken on all manner of toy cameras: from the classic Holga and Diana to the lensless pinhole - or camera obscura- the most primitive of primitive cameras. Lo-fi photography is taking over Somerville this month 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z For his daytime shoots, Morell creates a portable camera obscura with a tripod, a dark cloth and a lens. Van Gogh through a pinhole To take this shot, I turned my studio into a pinhole camera, or camera obscura – which literally means “dark room”. Vera Lutter's best photograph: the death knell for New York's Garment District 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Before assessing any use of camera obscura, she investigates the tools, materials and studio Vermeer was known to have used, and his virtuosic layering of paint. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z A camera obscura across from the crow filters in a tiny amount of light. Rats on Main Street? Don’t Scream, They’re Art 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z For one, Bellotto used a camera obscura to trace pencil drawings of the architecture, which were then transferred on to the canvas and finished off with watercolours. Story of cities #28: how postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z For his daytime shoots, Morell creates a portable camera obscura with a tripod, a dark cloth and a lens. Van Gogh through a pinhole Learn about plankton populations, crawl through the pitch-black tactile dome or step into the mobile camera obscura and view the world upside down. Essentials for a San Francisco trip: Classics to what’s new 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Most notable were the mural and portrait techniques he developed to quickly and efficiently produce imagery, such as stencils and the use of a camera obscura. On Scientific American 's 170th Anniversary, a Nod to Founder Rufus Porter 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Photograph: Richard Schmidt/LA Louver “Technology has always altered pictures,” said Hockney, who believes the old masters used camera obscura techniques. David Hockney does LA again, but differently: 'I stay in, I smoke, I feel OK' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But it was Leonardo da Vinci who made the first detailed drawings of a camera obscura in his 1485 sketchbook, Codex Atlanticus. X-rays shine light on mystery 'bird' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Making a portable camera obscura was, for Morell, a breakthrough comparable to the invention of paint tubes in the late 18th century. Van Gogh through a pinhole Camera before Film “A very valuable aid to artistic culture of the hand and eye is found in the ‘camera obscura.’ 150 Years Ago: Camera before Film 2013-06-02T14:15:00.157Z On the top floor of the enclosed Palacio Villavicencio, a pioneering “camera obscura” provides an overview of the town through the mystifying magic of mirrors. Travel: Four Sips of Jerez 2013-01-25T08:00:00Z The mimicry of its movements upon our white-painted canvas was as faithful and luminous as that of animals within a few yards of the camera obscura. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z In looking at the planar image of a camera obscura we are amazed at the plenitude of the light and the profundity of the shadows, both of which we do not notice in real objects. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Morell needed it to negate as much light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. Van Gogh through a pinhole He bent over his map and across it, as across the table of a camera obscura he saw moving, in miniature and brilliantly defined, the ships of the men who had sailed to the South. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z It is the camera obscura which shows the objects more purely, and enables us to survey them and comprehend them better. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z I feel as though I were in the dark of a camera obscura gazing into their 235 brightness. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z It seems virtually certain, for example, that Vermeer used a prephotographic technique in the mid-17th century, looking at his subjects through a camera obscura. Gerhard Richter’s Dark Past, Zen Clouds Intrigue at Tate: Review 2011-10-23T23:25:35Z The earliest written account of a camera obscura was provided by the Chinese philosopher Mo-tzu in about 400 B.C. Van Gogh through a pinhole Mrs. B. That is true; but the representation became much more strong and distinct, when we enlarged the opening of the camera obscura, and received the rays into it, through a lens. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z He invented the magic lantern and the camera obscura, and described it in his commentary on the “Pneumatica.” A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z “Then, mother,” said Catherine, “our eyes are as curious as grandfather’s telescope, or as the camera obscura, that he gave us to see pictures with.” The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z On their return to the American shore, they examined a camera obscura, which is situated at the head of the American stair-case, and was built by a Swiss. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Nothing could be more splendid than Lermontov’s descriptions; but they are, compared with those of Western poets, concrete, as sharp as views in a camera obscura. An Outline of Russian Literature Mrs. B. It is not enough to admire, you must understand, this phenomenon, which is called a camera obscura, or dark chamber; from the necessity of darkening the room, in order to exhibit it. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Though Porta’s merits were undoubtedly great, he did not invent or improve the camera obscura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" His method was to compare its light with that of the sun by an arrangement that resembled a camera obscura, the light from the sun and the flame being repeatedly superposed upon each other. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. On their return to the American shore, they examined a camera obscura, which is situated at the head of the American stair-case, and was built by a Swiss. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Those of my readers who have ever seen a "camera obscura" will recognize what I mean. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam These rays cross each other at the aperture, forming equal angles on each side of it, and represent the tree inverted in the camera obscura. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z It is interesting to note this early employment of the camera obscura in the field of astronomical research, in which its latest achievements have been of such pre-eminent value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" He was a good colourist and a facile executant, and was wont to employ the camera obscura with great success in the treatment of light and shadow; but he was careless and unconscientious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" On our return to the American shore, we examined a camera obscura which is situated at the head of the American staircase, and was built by a Swiss. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The eye is a camera obscura, an optical apparatus; the ear an acoustic instrument; the skeleton an ingenious system of levers, which obey the same laws as all other levers. Naturalism And Religion I do not understand the use of these refracting humours: the image of objects was represented in the camera obscura, without any such assistance. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z In this the description of the camera obscura is in lib. xvii. cap. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" When he steals from the twilight of his cell, the scene breaks upon him like an illuminated missal, and all the people he sees are but so many figures in a camera obscura. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature In fact, Cooper could never comprehend how his head was like a camera obscura! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The construction of the organ is that of a common camera obscura. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. The camera obscura, sometimes consists of a small box, properly fitted up, to represent external objects. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The first practical step towards the development of the camera obscura seems to have been made by the famous painter and architect, Leon Battista Alberti, in 1437, contemporaneously with the invention of printing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In the centre of the room was a sort of camera obscura. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 But the philosopher, who with Paoli had compared his mind to a camera obscura, reappears unfortunately in the next entry. James Boswell Famous Scots Series The lens of the camera obscura transmits the figures to the prepared paper, on quite the same principle on which in vision the crystalline lens conveys them to the retina. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Mrs. B. Then you have only to suppose, that the representation in the camera obscura, is similar to that on the retina. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z These are probably the earliest distinct accounts of the natural phenomena of the camera obscura, but remained unpublished for some three centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us. Nature How can I make a cheap camera obscura? Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Did you ever see a ’camera obscura,’ as they call them?” The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life The choroid c c, is embued with a black liquor, which serves to absorb all the rays that are irregularly reflected, and to convert the body of the eye, into a more perfect camera obscura. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The increasing importance of the camera obscura as a photographic instrument makes it desirable to bring together what is known of its early history, which is far more extensive than is usually recognized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" This is beautifully demonstrated by a common optical instrument, the camera obscura. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The photographer can compel the sunlight to work for him only by means of a camera obscura, and the smithy the atmosphere, only by means of a bellows. Principles Of Political Economy The mimicry of its movements upon our white painted canvas was as faithful and luminous as that of animals within a few yards of the camera obscura. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy But since the eye absolutely requires refracting humours, in order to have a distinct representation formed on the retina, why is not the same refraction equally necessary, for the images formed in the camera obscura? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The advantages claimed for it were its cheapness, smallness and portability; that there was no appreciable distortion, and that its field was much larger than that of the camera obscura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" This is well illustrated by the camera obscura, where if you hold the paper nearer or more remote than the focal distance of the lens, the picture will be indistinct. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Portraits and landscapes, by his process, are said to be as fresh and vivid in color as those produced by the best camera obscura. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The eye can no more see than a camera obscura. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour Pray, Mrs. B., when we see the image of an object in a looking-glass, why is it not inverted, as in the camera obscura, and on the retina of the eye? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Quite recently, the camera obscura has come into use with submarine vessels, the periscope being simply a camera obscura under a new name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In this state it is ready to receive a photographic image, which may be impressed on it either from nature in the camera obscura, or from an engraving on a frame in sunshine. Photographic Reproduction Processes Instead of which, he looked at a part of his pictures through a prism, and at another part through a camera obscura. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection A remarkable instance of this is recorded by Mr. Myers in an article in the Arena, where the analogy to a camera obscura is very close. Real Ghost Stories But, Mrs. B., if we see only the image of objects, why do we not see them reversed, as you showed us they were, in the camera obscura? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z What has the cold yellow candle light of reason to do in the camera obscura of the human heart? My New Curate The preparation is even sensitive enough to permit one to obtain an impression in the camera obscura in developing by the ferricyanide.” Photographic Reproduction Processes He is now forming a menagerie, and also has a collection of fossils and minerals from the neighbourhood, with a camera obscura. Canada and the Canadians Volume I His best pictures are 'like nature's self seen through the camera obscura.' The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Mrs. B. Because the rays do not enter the mirror by a small aperture, and cross each other, as they do at the orifice of a camera obscura, or the pupil of the eye. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z You have seen the camera obscura that shows in darkness the scenery near at hand, provided the sun is shining? Caves of Terror To turn, for a moment, to a different scene, and to much humbler persons, that pass and repass in the camera obscura of my early recollections. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter To test this, show him a camera obscura, where there is a more literal transcript of present-day nature than any painting can be:—what is the result? The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art If you should collide with one, you will cause, a bell to be rung in the camera obscura room over at the fort. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam In practice this band would unwind uniformly at the focus of the receiving telescope, which would be placed in a box, forming a camera obscura. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 The camera obscura is a feeble imitation of the true idea. Caves of Terror It is a mode of fixing on certain substances the lights and shades of any object by means of a lens inserted in a camera obscura. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. The same principle enters into the arrangement of the camera obscura. Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival The "camera obscura," as used at a modern fort, is in itself a most interesting contrivance. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam In a camera obscura the butcher's cart and the figure of one of our own family amuse us. Initial Studies in American Letters There is a camera obscura placed in an ancient castle, which projects into the fiver, and which we admired extremely. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Bought some sticks peculiar to Niagara, and Indian curiosities; and looked into the large camera obscura, which reproduced every sight at the Falls. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic He paused for a second and asked, 'Have you ever been inside a camera obscura? The Philanderers The camera obscura shutter, in being turned about, suddenly throws upon the white screen-map the miniature picture of the hostile battleship. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam Here are two of them, however, which have limned themselves with the distinctness of the camera obscura on the page of a chronicler of trifles. Cowper This box used in a reverse way becomes a perfect camera obscura. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 A Tower designed for an observatory has been erected near its former site, which is fitted up with several large telescopes, and a camera obscura, to which the public are admitted. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829 GREELEY'S mind, like a camera obscura, may be said to retain its impressions while in the dark, and to lose them when exposed to the light. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 A submarine torpedo boat, coming into a harbor underneath the surface, is not pictured on the white table under the camera obscura. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam His conversation resembled a political camera obscura—as quaint as it was magical. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Here at last was a topic that really interested her, and one that gave another amazing glimpse into the camera obscura of New York society. The Custom of the Country He merely held what he had heard and seen; his mind was a sort of camera obscura. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories He saw them all as on the ever-changing field of a camera obscura. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women If this could be done, the Army would have to revise its method of firing such submarine mines by means of the camera obscura detection. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam At the earliest period of the employment of the camera obscura, a double-convex lens was used to produce the image; but this form was soon abandoned, on account of the spherical aberration so caused. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype The letters which follow are like a glimpse of a distant scene in a camera obscura, and, like life itself, they are full of repetitions and over-insistence on what is insignificant or of temporary interest. Albert Durer Men and women and animals seen at the numbered white stations in the sand, were but fantastic figures in a camera obscura. It Happened in Egypt Farther on, you meet with a camera obscura, whose effect surprises the spectators the more, as the objects represented within it have the motion which they do not find in common optics. Paris as It Was and as It Is We do not want you so close to the surface of the water that a ripple would show on the camera obscura table. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam The furnace room was spacious, and the walls filmed with soot, so that the place was as black as a camera obscura; a gas-jet burned in that cavern, illuminating almost nothing. The Quest The writer considers that it is more likely that these notes refer to a kind of camera obscura, in which a lens throws an inverted image of a landscape on the wall. History of Astronomy Twenty-five years ago I went into a camera obscura, where you see miniature men and women, coloured photographs alive and moving, trees waving, now and then dogs crossing the bright sun picture. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The proprietors of the grand exhibitions of phantasmagoria join to these simple means a combination of different effects, which they partly derive from the phenomena, presented by the camera obscura. Paris as It Was and as It Is The "periscope" is a device also of the nature of a camera obscura. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam This is why a landscape looks so much better in a contracting mirror or in a camera obscura, than it is in reality. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism Memory is in this respect like the lens of a camera obscura: it contracts everything within its range, and so produces a much finer picture than the actual landscape affords. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims Now I wish I could put before you a coloured, living, moving picture, like that of the camera obscura, of some other wheat-fields at a sunnier time. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Another means of reproducing, not merely writings or drawings, but natural objects, consists in a simple adaptation of the camera obscura. Across the Zodiac This is creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flashed at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. Biographia Literaria It was an ingenious camera obscura apparatus, and dimly depicted upon its surface appeared a reproduction of part of the storehouse beneath! Tales of Chinatown "We will now give you a free show, Inspector," he said, genially, "of our camera obscura!" The Quest of the Sacred Slipper We cannot look directly into the nature of things; we can only catch glimpses of the mighty shadow in the camera obscura of transcendental intelligence. Crotchet Castle He did not reply, but quietly led me into his camera obscura that I might see for myself. The Darrow Enigma I will place my lenses there at the chink through which you were gazing and bring the image down into my camera obscura by a prism arranged for total internal reflection. The Darrow Enigma |
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