Scioptic ball

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(Opt.)

the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.

See also: Scioptic

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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