{"id":71,"date":"2010-03-02T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibliowonk.com\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2014-05-24T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T20:47:24","slug":"oliver-wendell-holmes-and-stereoviewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Wendell Holmes and Stereoviewing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A<\/a>Holmes-style stereoviewer (Image via Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n
The history of 3-D from stereoscope to : The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Yorker<\/i> has an interesting piece<\/a> on the development of 3-D stereoscopy, really a review notice of Ray Zone’s book Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of the 3-D Film, 1838-1952<\/i>, and really a book about movies. I find some of it a bit breathless about Avatar. (Oy!)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

<\/a>But there’s this bit on Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/a> and the 19th C stereoscope (stereoviewer):<\/p>\n

He [Holmes] was not the inventor of the stereoscope; that honor belongs to Charles Wheatstone, a British scientist who had built a more cumbersome device twenty years earlier. But Holmes\u2019s lighter version sold en masse, and, in an even more fervid article from 1861, he guided stereoscopists on a grand verbal tour of the world, and promised them a trance\u2014\u201ca dream-like exaltation of the faculties, a kind of clairvoyance, in which we seem to leave the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve written more on stereoviews and my collecting here<\/a>. (Below: Images of New York from my collection.)<\/p>\n

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Holmes-style stereoviewer (Image via Wikipedia) The history of 3-D from stereoscope to : The New Yorker The New Yorker has an interesting piece on the development of 3-D stereoscopy, really a review notice of Ray Zone’s book Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of the 3-D Film, 1838-1952, and really a book about movies. I find… Continue reading Oliver Wendell Holmes and Stereoviewing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[392,395,417],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stereoviews","tag-new-yorker","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-stereoviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}