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A '''time viewer''', '''temporal viewer''', or '''chronoscope''' is a fictional device that can show events from another time, usually the ], but also (less commonly) the ].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2022 |title=Time Viewer |encyclopedia=] |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_viewer |access-date=2022-07-26 |last=Langford |first=David |author-link=David Langford |editor-last=Clute |editor-first=John |editor-link=John Clute |edition=4th |url-status=live |editor3-link=Graham Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-last=Sleight |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction |isbn=978-0-19-530567-8 |editor-last=Prucher |editor-first=Jeff |pages=244 |language=en |chapter=time viewer |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYzi8m8FbEsC&pg=PA244}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Stephen |title=All the Wonder that Would Be: Exploring Past Notions of the Future |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-51759-9 |series=Science and Fiction |pages=127–128 |language=en |chapter=Time Viewers |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-51759-9_5 |author-link=<!-- No article at present (July 2022); author of ''Measuring the Universe – The Cosmological Distance Ladder'' (1999), BSc in physics from the University of Bristol, PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester --> |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVPJDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA127}}</ref> |
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In ], '''time viewer''' (also called a temporal viewer or chronoscope) is a device that allows the past or future to be observed but not altered.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2022 |title=Time Viewer |encyclopedia=] |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_viewer |access-date=2022-07-26 |last=Langford |first=David |author-link=David Langford |editor-last=Clute |editor-first=John |editor-link=John Clute |edition=4th |url-status=live |editor3-link=Graham Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-last=Sleight |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction |isbn=978-0-19-530567-8 |editor-last=Prucher |editor-first=Jeff |pages=244 |language=en |chapter=time viewer |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYzi8m8FbEsC&pg=PA244}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Stephen |title=All the Wonder that Would Be: Exploring Past Notions of the Future |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-51759-9 |series=Science and Fiction |pages=127–128 |language=en |chapter=Time Viewers |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-51759-9_5 |author-link=<!-- No article at present (July 2022); author of ''Measuring the Universe – The Cosmological Distance Ladder'' (1999), BSc in physics from the University of Bristol, PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester --> |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVPJDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA127}}</ref> |
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* "]" (1956), by ] |
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