The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 302
lled Mr. Taylors suggestion, and showed how it might bemade available for copying natural flowers and other small objects. Fig. 44. represents a piece of thin plate-glass (a d e f), set upright on adrawing-board by means of a wooden standard (a b c), in a groove in whichthe edge of the plate is… … Fig. 44. Camera lucidafor Gardeners- with the standard a b c towards him ; the object to be copied is laid on theleft-hand side of the plate, as at o ; the head of the observer being also alittle to the left of the pillar, and the eye directed towards the middle of theplate, as at m, a distinct…
