PLAGIARISTS BY ANTICIPATION Leonard DIGGES (+ Johann ZAHN, 1641-1707, et al.) CONSTRAINT : unfixed image + camera obscura + telescope. INVENTION : “telecamera obscura”. Digges : “[…] ye may by applycation of glasses in due proportion cause any peculiare house or roume thereof dilate […] as playnly as if you were corporally present.” (Pantometria, 1571.) WORKS : ϕ of other people’s darkened rooms. All works lost (consumed privately). See also Zahn’s Oculus artificialis teledioptricus (1685-1686).
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