单词 | phantascope |
释义 | phantascopen.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > stereoscope stereoscope1838 phantascope1849 lenticular stereoscope1852 stereomonoscope1858 telestereoscope1858 stereophantasmascope1865 stereo1876 stereophantascope1890 tropostereoscope1900 kalloscope1901 rotoscope1907 1849 Sci. Amer. Dec. 84/4 Prof. John Locke has invented a curious instrument, named by him Phantascope, which will illustrate, in a manner never before accomplished, ‘single vision by each eye’. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1677/2 Phantascope..A pair of objects on the base-board is viewed through the perforations of both cards, and by viewing the index the optical axes of the eyes are converged and the objects are reduplicated, and eventually a merged image appears in the central position. 2. = phenakistoscope n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > optical and scientific toys > [noun] multiplying-glass1639 Cartesian devil1731 kaleidoscope1817 myriorama1823 thaumatrope1827 bottle imp1833 phantasmascope1833 phenakistoscope1834 stroboscope1836 anorthoscope1842 tantalus-cup1842 phantascope1851 phantoscope1861 Pharaoh's serpent1863 phosphoroscope1866 zoetrope1866 wheel of life1872 praxinoscope1878 zoopraxiscope1881 phantoscope1894 Newton's cradle1971 1851 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos. & Astron. I. xiv. 694 Optical toys—thaumatropes, phantascopes, &c.—Innumerable optical toys and pyrotechnic apparatus owe their effect to this continuance of the impression upon the retina when the object has changed its position. 1881 Oracle 12 Nov. 306 The optical toy, which has been variously called Phantascope, Phantasmascope, and Phenakistoscope. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 354/5 ‘Spirit’ photographs and their production are discussed and the principles of ‘ghostmaking machines’ and ‘phantascopes’ are clearly set out. 2002 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Aug. 20 Young people..get the chance to make their own phantascopes, to learn how people can be tricked into believing they are seeing movement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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