THE STEREOSCOPE ITS HISTORY, THEORY, AND CONSTRUCTION
Reading edition
WITH ITS APPLICATION TO THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS AND TO EDUCATION.
BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.,
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, ONE OF THE EIGHT ASSOCIATES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, OFFICER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, CHEVALIER OF THE PRUSSIAN ORDER OF MERIT, HONORARY OR CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF PETERSBURGH, VIENNA, BERLIN, COPENHAGEN, STOCKHOLM, BRUSSELS, GÖTTINGEN, MODENA, AND OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, ETC.
WITH FIFTY WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1856.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]
EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.
CONTENTS
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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 theVision of Solid Bodies, 216
XVII.— On certain Difficulties experienced in the Use of
the Stereoscope, 231
ON THE STEREOSCOPE.