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

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Title:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Date:
1877
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J. A. Moore
Volume:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Leaf #:
000112
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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SCIOPTICON MANUAL. 103 Class III or V of the appended catalogue, which will require a lecturer well informed in relation to BIBLE LANDS. The following descriptions are selected from the " Bible Dictionary," " Bible Lands," " The Land and the Book," " Bayard Taylor's Travels," &c., to suit the slides in Class III. As works on Egypt are less common than the Bible Dictionary, a description of each of the twenty Egyptian views is given. JERUSALEM. (For description of the City, and view from Mount of Olives, see Catalogue, Class III.) THE TEMPLE AREA. —The Temple Area, the precincts known to Christians as the Mosque of Omar, but called by the Moslems the "Dome of the Rock," the harem more sacred to Moslems than any spot on earth, except Mecca, is jealously guarded by the Turks. It con- tains about thirty-five acres, a large portion of which is sprinkled with pomegranates and cypresses, with here and there a shrine. Above this space rises the platform of the great mosque, paved with marble, and ascended by a flight of white marble steps, surmounted by a beau- tifully carved screen or open gateway, also of white marble. The edifice is an octagon of about one hundred and seventy feet diameter. There are four doors at the opposite cardinal points. The dome is sustained by four great piers, and has twelve arches, which rest on columns. The mosque is very beautiful with a kind of Moorish beauty. The octagonal walls below the dome are cov- ered with porcelain mosaic; the roof inside is of the richest woods, inlaid and carved; the floors of marble