"scotoscope" meaning in English

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          "text": "August 13th 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1988), 133.\n“Comes Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope. … The other [the scotoscope] he gives me, and is of value; and a curious curiosity it is to discover objects in a dark room with.”"
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        "An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light."
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          "disclose",
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          "object",
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          "dark",
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  "word": "scotoscope"
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