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Drawing and optical devices


 
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Journey through the intersection of art and science. Before the chemical fix, artists and scientists relied on a sophisticated array of lenses and mirrors to capture reality. Discover the essential tools that trained the human eye to see with photographic precision.

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Trace the Optical Heritage.

Contents

Introduction
1Drawing and optical devices
Albrecht Dürer: Drawing and drafting aids
2Albrecht Dürer: Drawing and drafting aids
3Henry Fox Talbot on drawing aids
Pantograph
4Invention of the pantograph
Zograscope
5Zograscope
Camera obscura
6Camera obscura: Design and use
7Portable camera obscura
8Historic and contemporary camera obscuras
9Abelardo Morell: Camera obscura
Camera lucida
10The camera lucida
11Camera lucida: Design and use
12Henry Fox Talbot: Camera lucida drawings (1833)
13John Herschel: Camera lucida drawings
Silhouette
14Silhouettes
Physionotrace
15Physionotrace
Perspective
16Perspective
Dioramas
17Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Dioramas

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