Any of various devices used to project images of very small objects. Chiefly with distinguishing word indicating the source of light used in the…

A form of camera obscura or magic lantern which casts a magnified reflected image of a small opaque object on to a screen. Cf. epidiascope, n.

a microscope in which the object is lit by limelight.

an optical device in which a reflected image of an illuminated object (esp. a person's face) is magnified and projected on a screen.

A kind of magic lantern for exhibiting opaque objects, such as coins, photographs, etc.

A portable magic lantern designed for displaying photographs.

A double magic lantern arranged to combine two images of the same object or scene upon a screen, so as to produce the appearance of solidity as in…

An optical device capable of automatically projecting a sequence of images at fixed intervals, (later) so as to create a motion picture. Cf. cinemato…

Applied to a magic lantern having three optical tubes combined in one: also elliptical as n.

In technical and elliptical uses. A magic lantern having three optical tubes combined in one.

A magic lantern for projecting images of opaque objects.