 | Robert Hunt - 1862 - 1068 pages
...seen to execute the movement so delineated : in the stcrcotropc Ihc effect of solidity is superaddcd, so that the object is perceived as if in motion and with an appearance of relief as in nature. Its construction, when the refracting stereoscope is made use of, is as follows : — Eight stereoscopic... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1862 - 668 pages
...represented on a revolving disc, in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in the stereotrope the effect of solidity is snperadded, so that the object is perceived as if in motion and with an appearance of relief as in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 408 pages
...&c., which depend for their results on "persistence of vision," superadding the effects of solidity, so that the object is perceived as if in motion, and with an appearance of relief as in nature. The curious and beautiful effeots of the plenakistoscope are wonderfully enhanced by the addition of eolidity... | |
 | 1868 - 884 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in the stereotrope, the effect of solidity is superaddcd, so that the object is seen as if in motion, and with an appearance of relief as in nature.... | |
 | 1868 - 884 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, ц seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in the stereotrope, the effect of solidity is superaddcd, to that the object is seen as if in motion, and with in appearance of relief as in nature.... | |
 | 1869 - 924 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in...effect of solidity is superadded, so that the object is seen as if in motion, and with at appearance of relief as in nature. A highly ingenious application... | |
 | 1872 - 860 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in...stereotrope, the effect of solidity is superadded, BO that the object is seen as if in motion, and with an appearance of relief as in nature. A highly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in...effect of solidity is superadded, so that the object is seen as if in motion, and with an appearance of relief as in nature. A highly ingenious application... | |
 | 1878 - 880 pages
...represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to execute the movement so delineated ; in...effect of solidity is superadded, so that the object is seen as if in motion, and with an appearance of relief as in nature. A highly ingénions application... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 pages
...(ster'eo-trop), n. [Gr. stereos, solid, aud tropf, a turning, from trepo, to turn.] An instrument by which an object is perceived as if in motion and with an appearance of solidity or relief as in nature. It consists of a series of stereoscopic pictures, generally eight,... | |
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... phenakistoscopes, &c., which depend for their results on ' persistence of vision.' In these instruments, as is well known, an object represented on a revolving disc in the successive positions it assumes in performing a given evolution, is seen to... 
