The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 360
it to no practicaluse, though over four hundred years after his time Giovanni Baptiste Porta did.But who knows that the ancients hundred of years before the Flood were un-acquainted with it ? Here, for example, is a story a little bird told me one beautifulsummers day while reclining on the… … m.m,.,^,^U Fig. I. 356 THE CAMERA OBSCURA : HOW TO MAKE AND USE IT, my face. Probably it was that which set me a-thinking about the laws of optics andthe camera obscura and camera lucida. Suddenly close up above me a bird alighted—it was early in the season—and began pouring out the most charming…
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