xA notice of the principle of a chromatic stereoscope was communicated by Sir David Brewster to the Physical Section of the British Association at Swansea in 1848. See Report of the Association2 and Phil. Mag. January 1852. P31.3
My dear Francis,
You must manage to put the above as a foot note to the 1st page of the Report of Doves enquiries4 – you may choose the place of the star – after the word ‘ingenious inventor’ it might appropriately be placed – or perhaps in the title – the place is of not much importance so as the note appears.
Sincerely yours | J Tyndall
RDS 27/24
[late September 1852]: dated by the allusion to the ‘Report’ of Dove’s investigation.
Report of the Association: D. Brewster, ‘On the Vision of Distance as given by Colour’, Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1848 (pt. 2), p. 48.
Phil. Mag. January 1852. P31: D. Brewster, ‘Notice of a Chromatic Stereoscope’, Phil. Mag., 3:15 (January 1852), p. 31.
1st page of the Report of Doves enquiries: J. Tyndall, ‘Reports on the Progress of the Physical Sciences’, Phil. Mag., 4:25 (October 1852), pp. 241–9. The footnote was not placed in the published article. The phrase ‘ingenious inventor’ appears in the first paragraph.
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