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Camera Obscura & World of Illusions is a tourist attraction located in Outlook Tower on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile close to Edinburgh Castle. The original attraction was founded by entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short in 1835 and was exhibited on Calton Hill.
On 26 April 1843, Maria married Robert Henderson, at Saint Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, [2] and in 1852 bought the Laird of Cockpen's townhouse on Castlehill, now known as Old Town, Edinburgh. With the help of sponsors she added an extra two floors and a viewing platform with a dome housing a camera obscura.
Edinburgh Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Edinburgh, Johnson County, Indiana. The district encompasses 48 contributing buildings in the central business district of Edinburgh.
A camera obscura (pl. camerae obscurae or camera obscuras; from Latin camera obscūra ' dark chamber ') [1] is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside.
Roughly both sides of S. Walnut St. from Thompson St. south to 507 and 514 S. Walnut, plus the 100 block of W. Campbell, Edinburgh, Indiana Coordinates 39°21′05″N 85°57′59″W / 39.35139°N 85.96639°W / 39.35139; -85
An 18th-century artist utilizing a camera obscura for image tracing. The camera obscura (from the Latin for 'dark room') is a natural optical phenomenon and precursor of the photographic camera. It projects an inverted image (flipped left to right and upside down) of a scene from the other side of a screen or wall through a small aperture onto ...
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The dwellings include a collection of substantial homes with high historic integrity. Notable buildings include the Edinburgh Presbyterian Church (1916), and former marble shop and weight house (c. 1880). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]