The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, was an early type of image projector that used pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs—on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source.

The magic lantern was invented in the 1600’s, probably by Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist. It was the earliest form of slide projector and has a long and fascinating history. The first magic lanterns were illuminated by candles, but as technology evolved they were lit by increasingly powerful means.

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A magic lantern is a simple form of image projector that requires a light source, a concave mirror to help intensify and focus the light, and a lens to project a painted picture from a glass slide onto a wall or projection screen.

2019年12月19日 · In his latest video, vintage camera and lens enthusiast Mathieu Stern dives into the history behind this forefather or cinematography before bringing a 160-year-old magic lantern projector back...

All over Europe, people such as Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) and the Danish mathematician Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten started to develop working models of Lantern Projectors.

2018年9月14日 · Beginning in the early 1800s, British “lanternists” brought projections of painted or photographed images to life via sound effects, narration and various personal touches. These 3D slides and...

A magic lantern, also known as laterna magica, is an early image projector that shows pictures (paintings, photographs, or prints) attached to transparent glass plates. The magic lantern has four basic parts: (1) projector body, (2) concave mirror behind a …

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LUCERNA is an online resource on the magic lantern, an early slide projector invented in the 17th century. For more than 350 years the magic lantern has represented and fed into every aspect of human life and every part of the world.