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The stereoscope : $b its history, theory, and construction, with its application to the fine and useful arts and to educationBrewster, David

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The stereoscope : $b its history, theory, and construction, with its application to the fine and useful arts and to education

Name: The stereoscope : $b its history, theory, and construction, with its application to the fine and useful arts and to education
Author: Brewster, David

Brewster, David

Stereoscope

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    INTRODUCTION,                                                  1
    CHAP. I.—HISTORY OF THE STEREOSCOPE,                           5
         II.—ON MONOCULAR VISION, OR VISION WITH ONE EYE,         38
        III.—ON BINOCULAR VISION, OR VISION WITH TWO EYES,        47
         IV.—DESCRIPTION OF THE OCULAR, REFLECTING,
               AND LENTICULAR STEREOSCOPES,                       53
          V.—ON THE THEORY OF THE STEREOSCOPIC VISION,            76
         VI.—ON THE UNION OF SIMILAR PICTURES IN
               BINOCULAR VISION,                                  90
        VII.—DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT STEREOSCOPES,              107
       VIII.—METHOD OF TAKING PICTURES FOR THE STEREOSCOPE,      131
         IX.—ON THE ADAPTATION OF THE PICTURES TO
               THE STEREOSCOPE.—THEIR SIZE, POSITION,
               AND ILLUMINATION,                                 159
          X.—APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO PAINTING,         166
         XI.—APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO SCULPTURE,
               ARCHITECTURE, AND ENGINEERING,                    183
        XII.—APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO NATURAL HISTORY,  189
       XIII.—APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO
               EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES,                             193
        XIV.—APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO PURPOSES
               OF AMUSEMENT,                                     204
         XV.—ON THE PRODUCTION OF STEREOSCOPIC
               PICTURES FROM A SINGLE PICTURE,                   211
        XVI.—ON CERTAIN FALLACIES OF SIGHT IN THE
               VISION OF SOLID BODIES,                           216
       XVII.—ON CERTAIN DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED IN
               THE USE OF THE STEREOSCOPE,                       231




ON THE STEREOSCOPE.




INTRODUCTION.


The _Stereoscope_, a word derived from =στέρεος=, _solid_, and
σκόπειν, to _see_, is an optical instrument, of modern invention, for
representing, in apparent relief and solidity, all natural objects and
all groups or combinations of objects, by uniting into one image two
plane representations of these objects or groups as seen by each eye
separately. In its most general form the Stereoscope is a _binocular_
instrument, that is, is applied to _both_ eyes; but in two of its
forms it is _monocular_, or applied only to _one_ eye, though the use
of the other eye, without any instrumental aid, is necessary in the
combination of the two plane pictures, or of one plane picture and its
reflected image. The Stereoscope, therefore, cannot, like the telescope
and microscope, be used by persons who have lost the use of one eye,
and its remarkable effects cannot be properly appreciated by those
whose eyes are not equally good.

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