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camera lucida

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
camera lucida /ˌkam(ə)rə ˈluːsɪdə/

▶noun an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce an image on a sheet of paper, from which a drawing can be made.

– origin C18: from L., ‘bright chamber’, on the pattern of camera obscura.

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