anamorphoscopen.
A device, usually in the form of a vertical cylindrical mirror, made so as to give a correct image of an anamorphosis (see anamorphosis n. 1).
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perspective glass1570
side mirror1769
index-glass1773
Claude Lorraine glass1792
anamorphoscopea1884
magnetic mirror1884
ox-eye1890
busybody1892
rear mirror1896
triple mirror1907
three-way mirror1964
two-way mirror1967
a1884 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl.
1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 12 Nov. p. iv/1 The exhibits in the historical section will include the ‘Anamorphoscope’, a set of 12 designs showing distorted figures in perfect formation in a cylindrical mirror (date about 1635).
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