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Eidophusikon|aɪdəˈfjuːzɪkɒn|
Also -con.
[f. Gr. εἶδο-ς form + ϕυσικὸν natural, f. ϕύσις nature.]
A kind of magic lantern showing a series of pictures illustrative of some occurrence, invented by Philip de Loutherbourg c 1780.
a1800S. Pegge Anecdotes (1803) 252 How otherwise is the next generation to understand what is meant by the Lyceum, the Eidophusicon, Sir Ashton Lever's Holophusicon, Walker's Eidouranion? 1866Nature & Art I. 162/2 In 1782 De Loutherbourg took the theatre for the exhibition of his Eidophusikon... He confined the Eidophusikon for the most part to the exhibition of English landscapes under different conditions of light and shadow. 1934Burlington Mag. Feb. p. xv/1 De Loutherbourg's ‘Eidophusikon’ of movable representations of natural effects which caused the world to wonder when displayed in 1782. |