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Panorama was coined in the late 1780s by an Irish artist called Robert Barker to describe a method he had invented for painting a scene on the inside of a cylinder in such a way that its perspective would seem correct to somebody viewing it from inside the cylinder. He put his invention into practice in 1793 when he opened his "Panorama," a large building in Leicester Square, London, where the public could come and gaze at such all-encompassing scenes. The modern abstract meaning was in use by the early 19th century.
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