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Season 259 - Day 9 of 14
Instruments and Tools
Studied by the medieval scholar Ibn al-Haytham and later employed by Renaissance artists to trace realistic perspective, this optical device uses a small opening to project an inverted image of the outside world onto an interior surface.
Sometimes constructed as an entire darkened room and given its enduring moniker by Johannes Kepler in 1604, by what two-word Latin name is this precursor to modern photography known?
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