The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular (1877)

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INTRODUCTION. THE SCIOPTICON (pronounced Si-op-ti-con), is by far the most convenient and easily managed of any form of Magic Lantern. Its ridge of wide, intensified double flame, lying lengthwise in the axis of the condensing lenses, gives it much greater efficiency than any other lamp-illuminated lantern. All who have become acquainted with this new in- strument, see in it the accomplishment of what has long been greatly desired by those who appreciate the value of visible illustrations as a means of imparting instruc- tion and of affording rational amusement. Confessedly, the medieval magicians with their lan- terne magique effected little good by their incantations and ghostly spectres. But modern educators have higher aims and better means at hand. Their lenses are greatly improved in form and quality. The pho- tographer secures images of all that is interesting or (xi)