cosmorama
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A view or series of views of the world; specifically, an exhibition of a number of drawings, paintings, or photographs of cities, buildings, landscapes, and the like, in different parts of the world, so arranged that they are reflected from mirrors, the reflections being seen through a lens.
Examples
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The cosmorama, the pleorama, the myriorama (to name only three) — all in various ways sought to make the visible spectacular.
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
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They should remember, what they uniformly and universally forget, that we are not invited, upon the rising of the curtain, to behold a cosmorama, or picture of the world, but a representation of that part of it called Vanity Fair.
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He wished that this means of mental improvement and recreation combined might be freely afforded to those whose scanty earnings would not permit them otherwise to make frequent use of it, and he resolved that the museum and the cosmorama should be included in his institution.
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The cosmorama consisted of rather small landscape scenes displayed conventionally in a gallery, but viewed in relief, through an arrangement of magnifying mirrors.
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
Note
The word 'cosmorama' comes from Greek roots meaning 'the world' and 'spectacle'.
