The sciopticon manual : explaining Marcy's new magic lantern, and light, including magic lantern optics, experiments, photographing and coloring slides, etc.
The Sciopticon Manual, published in Philadelphia in 1874 by L. J. Marcy, is a technical handbook explaining his magic lantern and the optics of light for lantern operators and amateur experimenters. The pictures are plain line diagrams of lens paths, lantern optics, and apparatus, labelled with letters and figure numbers, offering a designer clean schematic motifs of beams, lenses, and projected light.
