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Slide projector

A bright slide beyond the focal length — one lens throws an inverted picture onto the screen.
Author
Christiaan Huygens
Date
c. 1659 — Huygens’s magic lantern

Huygens sketched a lantern that threw painted slides on a wall and then half-disowned it as a toy for scaring people. Kircher printed a similar box. The photographic slide projector of the nineteenth century is the same conjugate: object outside the focal length, real inverted image on a screen.

One convex lens is enough for the idea. This bench leaves the “slide” as a luminous object and lets you slide the lens until the screen sharpens.

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