The sciopticon manual. Explaining Marcy's new magic lantern, and light, including magic lantern optics, experiments, photographing and coloring slides, etc (1874)
Marcy, L. J · [Philadelphia] Sherman · leaf 67
58 SCIOPTICON MANUAL. A very large class of paintings, on strips of glass 12 or 14 inches long, have come down to us from a former generation. Many of them hardly deserve attention, but some Nursery Tales, Natural History, &c., are fair, and the Astronomical set, in particular, is excellent. … Mg. 22. This set of ten astronomical slides, with forty-one illustrations, together with a set of astronomical dia- grams with rack-work motion, makes a very complete outfit for a series of astronomical lectures. BIORAMIC PAINTINGS WITH MOTINO FIGURES. In the middle of a glass strip (shaped and…
Lantern projection · Slides (Photography)
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