Editing Magic lantern (section)

===Camera obscura===
The magic lantern can be seen as a further development of [[camera obscura]]. This is a natural phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen as an inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening. It was known at least since the 5th century BC and experimented with in darkened rooms at least since {{circa|1000&nbsp;AD}}. The use of a lens in the hole has been traced back to {{circa|1550|lk=no}}. The portable camera obscura box with a lens was developed in the 17th century. Dutch inventor [[Cornelis Drebbel]] is thought to have sold one to Dutch poet, composer and diplomat [[Constantijn Huygens]] in 1622,<ref name="Snyder">{{Cite book |last=Snyder |first=Laura J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQJ-BAAAQBAJ&q=friedrich+risner+camera+obscura&pg=PT110 |title=Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing |publisher=W. W. Norton |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-393-07746-9 |location=New York City |oclc=892514232}}</ref> while the oldest known clear description of a box-type camera is in German Jesuit scientist [[Gaspar Schott]]'s 1657 book ''Magia universalis naturæ et artis''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vermeir |first=Koen |date=2005 |title=The Magic of the Magic Lantern (1660–1700): On Analogical Demonstration and the Visualization of the Invisible |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4028694 |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=127–159 |doi=10.1017/S0007087405006709 |issn=0007-0874 |jstor=4028694|s2cid=143404000 }}</ref>