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Society In London In 1838: The stereograph creates its dramatic effect because it reproduces binocular vision. Normally we see the world with both of our eyes. The image formed on the retina of each eye is very slightly different, due to its position in space: the fusion of the two in our mind is an important part of our perception of the relative distance of objects from us. Sir Charles Wheatstone, in a classic study published by the Royal Society in London in 1838, clearly described this phenomenon, and he illustrated his report in the Society's Philosophical Transactions with outline drawings of solid geometrical forms in the perspective in which they would be seen by each eye. He placed these drawings in an instrument he designed that he called the stereoscope.
In the past these people were also generally social figures and "in society." London society differed from that of other European capitals in that it was never divided into "diplomatic society," "literary society," "musical society," and so on. There was only "society," in which everyone knew everyone else, and the tradition lingers.
23. C. Jabez Hughes, "On Art Photography," American Journal of Photography, new series vol. 3 (1861), p. 261.
24. Charles Wheatstone, "On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 11 (1838), pp. 373-74.
25. Ibid., p. 376. |
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