Camera clara

International names:

Camera clara

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Camera obscura. Hauch calls it Camera clara. Boxwood case 200x135x107 inside which an inner case with objective lens can be adjusted with a key by rack and pinion for focusing. 45 mirror. The outer case has an "ocular" lens upon which a frosted glass plate, now missing, has been placed for drawing.Ref: Det phys Cab vol 2 p 106, pl 32 fig 7.Not signedc1800 (g)

• Category: Light
• Hauch number: F50
• Inventory number: 4920
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 1655

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §0
• Cabinet 1: 0

• Literature:

• Catel(1790) tab.III fig 74

   

  Gehler(1787-96) IV p.867 fig.99

   

  Bud & Warner(1998) p.90