Codice albumGBB-F-007000

Codice inventarioGBB-F-007000-0000

1865 ca, GREAT BRITAIN: The Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian of science and university principal Sir DAVID BREWSTER (1781 1868). Portrait of Sir David Brewster seated with stereoscope on the table, illustration from book" The drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages, illustrated news of the world", 1861, engraved by D.J. Poun from a photograph by John Watkins, London. He is well-recognized for being the inventor of the kaleidoscope and an improved version of the stereoscope applied to photography. He called it the" lenticular stereoscope", which was the first portable 3D viewing device. He also invented the binocular camera, two types of polarimeters,9 the polyzonal lens and the lighthouse illuminator

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