| Time
Period |
Person |
Discovery |
| 300BC -175AD |
Euclid, Claudius Galen |
Each eye sees objects
differently |
| 1519 |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Binocular vision adds
a quality of relief to the perception of objects. |
| 1611 & 1613 |
Johann Kepler, Francois
Aguilonius |
Binocular vision is
single only at the plane of and convergence; otherwise, images are doubled. |
| 1738 & 1759 |
Robert Smith, W. Porterfield |
Binocular parallax
causes image disparities. |
| 1775 |
Joseph Harris |
Binocular parallax
causes relief perception |
| 1833 |
Charles
Wheatstone |
Image disparities,
the result of parallax, are the source of relief perception - or stereopsis. |
| 1833 |
Charles
Wheatstone |
Binocular images can
be drawn |
| 1838 |
Charles
Wheatstone |
Space can be perceived
inverted (pseudostereo). |
| 1841 |
Charles
Wheatstone |
Binocular images can
be made photographically |
| 1857 |
Hermann Helmholtz |
The space in binocular
images can be scaled (hyperstereo and hypostereo). |
