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THE SKIASCOPE
THE SKIASCOPE
IN
USE
shadow. It has been devised for the purpose of demonstrating a visual principle not yet given the importance
into
it
deserves
by museum
people.
seeing, it is more important that the eyes should be sufthan that the object should be abundantly lighted.
shaded
ficiently
For good
To prove
this principle
ter
The instrument
and a
with
it
things well
The
user not only sees betbut also learns that the chief obstacle to seeing
theoretical value.
is
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In
and
artificial lighting
New York
We have found
Harbor.
way
to
is
it
may
and
The instrument
box
with flexible sides, open at the ends, lined with black and
divided longitudinally by a central black partition; one
end of the box being shaped to fit closely against the eyes,
and the other broadened to give a sufficient field of view.
The flexible
when not in
up
pocket.
Eye-shades of various forms are common. The skiascope is a novelty only in the handy way in which it rethe observer's view to a small part of the normal
of vision. At a distance of six or eight feet from a
stricts
field
it
dows
room
is
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is
A window wall
from the
rest of the
room; but
is
lighted
and by
re-
this illumination
and accentuated
the" sculptures.
We
lights
The museum
it
in-
THE SKIASCOPE
The theoretic value of the skiascope is
The demonstration it gives that avoidance
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incontestable.
of glare in the
eyes
is
offered as a factor in
an anti-glare propaganda.
As the skiascope
proposition,
it
may
will
in detail.
Parts
1
Two pieces of three-sixteenths inch board six and one half
inches long by five inches wide, one end shaped as shown (full
.
piece has
2*
\/
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Construction
The
and
it is
being cut and glued together as herelater in glueing the forehead and
also
o 3"
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246
The two
hereafter described.
of
the central holes of the larger ends of the two blocks and those
of the other into the holes at the smaller ends.
THE SKIASCOPE
the second block tightly, securing
by
another set of
thumb
tacks.
it
The
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the pattern will lap over the ends of the blocks and more than
cover the last face of the second block. Trim off the superfluous
flannel at the four edges of both ends and also at the last edge
secured by the thumb tacks, leaving here also a border half
an inch wide as on the front edge AB. Now, glue the two flannel
borders down, letting the glue run closely along the interstice
between the blocks. This secures the line CD of the finished
lining
line
shown
EF
remove
two lining curves shown by dotted lines in Figures 1 and 1 bis,
mark out these curves in red crayon at the smaller end of the
covered blocks, now secured together, one curve on each rec-
tangular face. Run the crayon also along all four longitudinal
edges of the covered double block. This is necessary because
the lining must be taken off the double block to be further cut
To glue on
the forehead
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