Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 523
dvividness that we all buthear the wild uproar ofthe breakers. But for the art of pho-tography the stereoscopewould not thus be ready to minister to our enjoyment, for no pictures wrought by mans handiworkcould approach the requisite accuracy which tie two stereoscopic picturesmust possess. All… … FlG. 245. 472 SIGHT. tion of the stereoscope has been made to the illustration of a treatise onsolid geojnetry, where the lines representing the planes, being drawn inproper perspective, the reader by placing a simple stereoscope over theplates sees the planes stand out in relief before him, and…
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