Perspectograph

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from a single point.

Etymology

From Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere (“to look through”) + -graph.

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