Duboscq Bioscope: Early Visual Media - Joseph Plateau - Pre-cinema - Optical toys

JOSEPH PLATEAU COLLECTION U-GENT
DUBOSCQ's BIOSCOPE
A WORLD UNICUM IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF GHENT

The Duboscq Stereo Bioscope disc

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801 - 1883)

^{^{Bioscope - Phénakistiscope Disc of a steam engine}} ^{Phenakistiscope collection}^{© Ghent University science museum U-Gent}		^{^{Daguerreotype portrait of Joseph Plateau} ^{^{Joseph Plateau collection} ^{phot. Joseph Pelizzaro (1843)}}}
Return to Joseph Plateau Introduction		Daguerreotype portrait depicting Joseph Plateau

Perhaps the most challenging device for research in the Joseph Plateau collection is the Duboscq Bioscope or albumin stereo phenakistiscope disc. Unfortunately, only one disc is preserved and no apparatus is known.

Read some information about the Bioscope

I'm most thankfull to Professor Jos Uyttenhove & Professor Maurice Dorikens (University Ghent) for permission to use these images from the world famous Joseph Plateau collection.