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troscope was so well known at the time of Teniers as to be in- 
inded’ in the inventory of apparatus of a chemist’s laboratory, 
Is not the evidence that the theory of binocular vision and of 
the stereoscope were known at the time of Chimenti, quite as 
as would be afforded by Teniers’ pictures, to disprove the 
modern invention and use of the spectroscope 
The Chimenti pictures must therefore be ruled out of court 
and judgment entered for Mr, Wheatstone, unless new evidence 
can be found worthy of the consideration of scientific men. 
New York, June 1, 1864, 
Art. XXI,— Results of some recent Observations of the Solar Sur- 
face, with Remarks ; by the Rev. W. R. Dawes.’ 
* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, May 13, 1864. 
