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The kaleidoscope

Chapter 1: THE KALEIDOSCOPE, ITS HISTORY, THEORY, AND CONSTRUCTION.
By David Brewster
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A comprehensive account traces the instrument's accidental origin in experiments with successive reflections and polarized light, then develops the optical theory of paired and multiple reflectors that produce symmetrical, repeating patterns. Practical chapters explain construction of simple, telescopic, polyangular, annular, polycentral, total-internal-reflection, polarized-light, stereoscopic, and microscopic variants, selection and illumination of objects, and photographic recording. The work examines how eye and object position, mirror angles, and motion change the designs, and concludes with suggestions for applying the produced motifs to ornament, textiles, architecture, and as an instrument of scientific display and visual entertainment.

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Title: The kaleidoscope

its history, theory and construction. With its application to the fine and useful arts

Author: David Brewster

Release date: September 14, 2024 [eBook #74417]

Language: English

Original publication: London: John Camden Hotten, 1870

Credits: deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KALEIDOSCOPE ***

THE KALEIDOSCOPE,
ITS HISTORY, THEORY,
AND CONSTRUCTION.

WITH ITS APPLICATION TO THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS.

BY
SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H., M.A., D.C.L.,

F.R.S., V.P.R.S., EDIN., M.R.I.A., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.,
ASSOCIATE OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, HONORARY OR
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF PETERSBURGH, VIENNA, BERLIN,
COPENHAGEN, STOCKHOLM, BRUSSELS, GOTTINGEN, MODENA, AND OF THE NATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGES OF
ST. SALVATOR AND ST. LEONARD, ST. ANDREWS.

Nihil tangit quod non ornat.

Third Edition, greatly enlarged.

WITH FIFTY-SIX WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND ONE PLATE.

LONDON:
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN,
PICCADILLY.
1870.