"catoptic" (perhaps) 1807
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Nov 17 02:05:06 UTC 2013
"TO THE CURIOUS, AND ADMIRERS OF PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS. CESAR
COSSA ... ALSO ONE NEW CATROPTIC [sic] MACHINE, to represent the
Brilliance of Peru in twelve different Representations."
Connecticut Courant, 1897 Mar. 18, 3/4. EAN.
If "catoptic", postdates OED2 sense 2 --c1660.
Joel
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