The time viewer is a fictional, oracle-like device occasionally imagined in science fiction. In many cases the time viewer resembles a television, except it shows the viewer events in another time, either the past or the future.
In his short story "The Dead Past" (1956), Isaac Asimov calls the device a chronoscope, but this is also the name that the Victorian-era scientist Charles Wheatstone gave to his invention for measuring small intervals of time.
Father François Brune, a French Catholic priest and author, relates in his book Le nouveau mystère du Vatican (2002) how an Italian priest invented a time viewer in the 20th century. He calls the machine the chronovisor.
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“when this life is from the body fled,
To see it selfe in that eternall Glasse,
Where time doth end, and thoughts accuse the dead,
Where all to come, is one with all that was;
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