Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures
Date:
1914
Author:
Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1946
Publisher:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Publishing Co.
Volume:
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures
Leaf #:
000718
Language:
English
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Gerstein - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Bibliography: p. 693-703
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 703 Werner discusses the claims of Da Vinci, (1500), and of Levi ben Gerson, 1321-1344. Wiedemann (which see) refers hack to Ibn al Haitem, about 1039. Young, Thomas. On the Mechanism of the Eye. Read before the R. S., Nov. 27, 1800. In the transactions of the R. S., 1801, pp. 23-88. On pp. 39-40 he describes astigmatism and shows that it can be corrected by making the spectacles oblique, p. 43. See also Airy. On pp. 57-58 is described a decisive experiment to show that the accommodation of the eye is due to a change in the crystalline lens. Wilde, Dr. Emil. Geschichte der Optik vom Ursprunge dieser Wissenschaft bis auf die gegenwartige Zeit. 2 parts. I, 3,52 p., 3 p., II, 407, p., 4 pi. Rucker und Puchler, Berlin. Part I, 1838; Part II, 1843. Zahn, Joannes. Oculus artificialis teledioptricus, sive telescopium nora methode explicatum ac comprismis e triplici fundament o physico seu naturali, mathematica dioptrico et mechanico, seu practice stabilitum; opus curiosum theorico-practicum magna rerum varietate adornatum. 2d ed. 50 + 645 + 15 P over 600 fig. Johannis Christophorilochneri, Norimbergae, 1702.