| 词汇 | magic lantern |
| 词源 | magic lantern. The first magic lanterns were rude optical in- struments employing a lens to cast a magnified image of a transparent picture drawn on glass onto a wall in a dark room. Such devices were known in Europe by the mid-17th century, but the first one called a magic lantern was the brainchild of a Danish inventor who exhibited it in France in 1665, the French dubbing the machine a lanterne magique. |
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