Antirrheoscope
notes: label: Description
content: The Antirrheoscope, or Artificial Waterfall, was used to demonstrate illusory afterimages. Johann Joseph Oppel, a math teacher in the Gymnasium in Frankfurt, described the form in 1856.
label: Description
content: Ref: Nicholas J. Wade, Dejan Todorovic, and Bernd Lingelbach, “Johann Joseph Oppel (1855) on Geometrical–Optical Illusions: A Translation and Commentary,” I-Perception, 8 (3).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornell University Department of Psychology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300427.147
label: catalog number
content: 300427.147
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Antirrheoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Antirrheoscope; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 112 cm x 95 cm x 24.5 cm; 44 1/8 in x 37 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in