scotoscope

Noun

 * 1) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
 * 2) * August 13th 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1988), 133.
 * “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.”