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The Photographic art-journal (1851)

Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 238

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recisely similar to those constructed byM. Claudet, who also employs the binocu-lar camera, and thus produces daguerreo-type portraits and views, which cannot besurpassed for6the beauty of their illasoryeffects. The lenticular stereoscope, made in themanner described by Sir David Brewster,may be of… … The most curious is the prismatic stereo-scope. A double prism, P P, is so adjust-ed, that, with the left eye, L, lookingthrough the prism, P, we may place therefracted image, B, upon A, as seen bythe right eye, R ; we shall then see a hol-low cone. But if, with the left eye, L,looking through the…

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