Das Stereoskop

Pub­lished in Leipzig in 1903 by Veit & Comp., Das Stere­oskop is a sci­en­tif­ic trea­tise on stere­oscopy by Wil­helm Man­chot, an archi­tect and pro­fes­sor at the Städelsches Kun­stin­sti­tut in Frank­furt am Main.
Unlike pop­u­lar pub­li­ca­tions devot­ed to stereo­scop­ic pho­tog­ra­phy and enter­tain­ment, Man­chot’s book con­cen­trates on the math­e­mat­i­cal and geo­met­ri­cal prin­ci­ples under­ly­ing stereo­scop­ic vision and the con­struc­tion of stereo­scop­ic images, par­tic­u­lar­ly for appli­ca­tions in tech­ni­cal sciences.
The text exam­ines the rela­tion­ships between the posi­tions of the observer’s eyes, the object and the image plane, using geo­met­ric dia­grams and math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las to explain how stereo­scop­ic images are con­struct­ed and per­ceived. Fur­ther sec­tions dis­cuss the graph­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of stereo­scop­ic images, stereo­scop­ic instru­ments and Man­chot’s own Uni­ver­sal Stereoscope.
The pub­li­ca­tion con­tains 68 num­bered pages and 50 illus­tra­tions. This copy retains its orig­i­nal print­ed paper wrap­pers and pro­vides an exam­ple of the increas­ing­ly sci­en­tif­ic and tech­ni­cal treat­ment of stere­oscopy at the begin­ning of the 20th century.