Wednesday 11 February 2015 at 17:09
More than just a favourite of Victorian home entertainment, the stereoscope and the 3D images it created were also used in the field of science. Lydia Pyne explores how the French palaeontologist Marcellin Boule utilised the device in his groundbreaking monograph analysing one of the early-20th-century's most significant archaeological discoveries - the Neanderthal skeleton of La Chapelle.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/02/11/neanderthals-in-3d-lhomme-de-la-chapelle/