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accurate rendering of perspective.A camera lucida is somewhat similar in mechanism to a periscope. However it completes two total internal reflections, generally within a single glass parallellepiped or rhomboid that works as a double prism. This causes a shifted (parallax-like) image of the pencil tip that overlaps with the microscopic field of vision. Then the microscopist traces

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