Wheatstone: binocular vision and the reflecting stereoscope

What changed

Binocular depth could be created and investigated with controlled image pairs.

Scientific scope

First 1838 paper and its instrument; later stereoscope designs and subsequent theory excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Wheatstone’s exact 1838 first paper on binocular vision and the instrument described there. Earlier observations, his later second paper, subsequent stereoscope designs and modern stereopsis theory remain separate.

Contributors

• Charles Wheatstone · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Wheatstone, Contributions to the Physiology of Vision
• Crossref record for Wheatstone 1838

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