 | 1897 - 894 pages
...represented on a revolving disk in the successive positions that 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: see ZOKTROPE. Swann made an ingenious... | |
 | Stephen Herbert - 2000 - 374 pages
...movement so delineated ; in the stereotrope the effect of solidity is snpermldcd, so that the ohject is perceived as if in motion and with an appearance...Having procured eight stereoscopic pictures of an ohject — of a steam-engine for example — in the successive positions it assumes in completing a... | |
 | Stephen Herbert - 2000 - 374 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 snperailded, so that the object is perceived as if in motion and with nu appearance of relief as in... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1861 - 546 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 effect of solidity is superadded, so that the ohject is perceived as if in motion and with an appearance of relief as in nature. The following is... | |
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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... 
