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568 The history of photography
20 Stereoscopic photography
1 Euclid, Treatise on Optics, Paris, 1577, Theorems 26, 27, and 28.
2 Galen, De usu partium corporis humani, Lugduni, 1550, p. 593.
3 Leonardo da Vinci, Treatise on Painting, translated by ]. F. Rigaud, London, 1835, paragraph
348.
4 G. B. della Porta, De refractione optices parte, Naples, 1593, book v, p. 132; book vi, pp. 143-5.
5 Franc;:ois d'Aguillon, Opticorum libri sex, Antwerp, 1613, books i and ii.
6 Cherubin d'Orleans, La Vision parfaite, Paris, 1677. The author perfected the binocular
telescope (1671), invented the binocular microscope and illustrated and described the
construction of several other instruments of binocular vision.
7 The Liverpool and Manchester Photographic journal, Jan. 1857.
8 Charles Wheatstone, 'On some remarkable and hitherto unobserved phenomena of
binocular vision', Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. , June 1838.
9 The Photographic Journal, Apr. 1854, p. 200.
10 These were shown to the Photographic Society of London by John Spiller in Apr. 1873.
11 W. B. Carpenter. Lecture reported in The British Journal of Photography, 1862, p. 122.
12 The Illustrated London News, 24 Jan. 1852.
13 The daguerreotype, but unfortunately not the ring itself, is in the Gernsheim Collection.
14 The Photographic News, Sept. 1858.
15 However, the reflecting stereoscope and large binocular pictures were still listed in Horne
& Thornthwaite's catalogue in 1857. But at 10s. a pair they were, of course, not competitive
with the small binocular pictures made for Brewster's stereoscope, costing Is.
to 1s. 6d.
16 The Philosophical Magazine, June 1852. There Elliot stated that he constructed his simple
viewer in 1839, one year after Wheatstone's communication to the Royal Society.
17 Professor Erich Stenger, Das Photo-Magazin, May 1952.
18 A. Claudet, 'Photography in its Relation to the Fine Arts', The Photographic journal, vol.
vi, 15 June 1860.
19 Sir David Brewster, The Stereoscope, London, 1856, p. 195.
20 C. Piazzi Smyth, Tenerijfe : an Astronomer's Experiment, London, 1858. Illustrated with
twenty stereoscopic photographs.
21 The Illustrated London News, J July 1858. Advertisement.
22 Sir David Brewster, The Stereoscope, p. 205.
23 Sir David Brewster, The Scientific Review, 1 Aug. 1 866.
24 The Photographic News Almanackfor 1863 , p. 30.
25 The original, patented on 8 July 1853, destroyed in the Second World War, is illustrated in
Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Photography, Cambridge, 1929, p. 506.
An improved model was patented by Dancer on 5 Sept. 1856.
26 The Quinetoscope is described and illustrated in La Lumiere, 30 July 1853, pp. 123, 127.
27 Photographic Notes, 15 Sept. I 8 59.
28 The Photographic News, , June 1868, p. 296.
29 C. Piazzi Smyth, A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865, London,
1870.
21 Instantaneous photography
1 La Lumiere, 17 June 18 54.
2 Valentine Blanchard, 'Instantaneous Photography Thirty Years Ago', The Photographic
Quarterly, vol. ii, 1891, p. 147.
3 Comptes Rendus, vol. xix, 1844, p. 1039.
4 The Liverpool Photographic journal, 1854, p. 144.
5 The photograph exists in two sizes. In the Permanent Collection of the Royal Photographic
Society is a print 7i in. x 5j- in. ; the Gernsheim Collection possesses a larger one 16-} in. x
1zj-in., possibly an enlargement made by re-photographing the picture on a larger plate.
6 Louis Figuier, La Photographie au Salon de 1859, Paris, 1860.
7 La Lumiere, 7 Aug. 1852.
8 The British Journal of Photography, Oct. I 864.