The Scottish physicist who designed the lenticular stereoscope sets out its history, from the ancients’ observations to Wheatstone’s mirror instrument and his own, and explains vision with one eye and with two. He describes the ocular, reflecting and lenticular stereoscopes, the theory of seeing depth, binocular cameras and uses of the instrument in art and education.
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