anorthoscopen.
An optical toy for viewing distorted figures drawn on a rotating disk.
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (1865) I. 114 Anorthoscope, the name given by M. Plateau of Brussels, to an instrument..intended to produce a peculiar kind of anamorphoses by means of two discs rotating rapidly one before the other.
Draft additions 1997
anorthoˈscopic adj. pertaining to or characteristic of the optical illusion produced by an anorthoscope, or the way in which this illusion is perceived.
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anorthoscopic1900
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 240 A movement of the eyes in the same direction as the figure, which would bring the experiment under practically the same principle as the ordinary anorthoscopic illusion.
1925 J. P. C. Southall tr. J. von Kries in H. von Helmholtz's Treat. Physiol. Optics III. 276 Here..should be included also the so-called anorthoscopic phenomena as being characteristic illusions connected with ocular judgement of motions.
1987 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol.: Human Perception & Performance 13 344/1 Just such distorted shape is often perceived in anorthoscopic perception.
anorthoˈscopically adv.
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anorthoscopically1981
1981 Sci. Amer. Mar. 106/3 To perceive a figure anorthoscopically it is not enough to know one is looking through a slit; the slit must be seen.
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