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The kaleidoscope was
invented in 1816 by Sir David Brewster, a Scottish scientist and philosopher,
but the renaissance of interest in kaleidoscopes has primarily been due to the
commitment and enthusiasm of a lady called Cozy Baker. It was she who discovered
the almost magical therapeutic and calming effects of kaleidoscopes about a year
after a family tragedy in 1981. Since then it has been her mission to make the
whole world aware of the wonderful effects that kaleidoscopes have on the human
psyche. She has worked tirelessly to achieve this, although not for any monetary
gain. She just wants everyone to share in what kaleidoscopes have done for her
and, in the process, has awakened an interest in artists and collectors of these
special objects. A kaleidoscope, in its simplest terms, is a triangle of mirrors
inside a decorative body and it is this mirror system that creates the colourful,
symmetrical images which are characteristic of a kaleidoscope. A whole variety
of effects can be created by varying the set-up of the mirrors, including the
number of surfaces that are silvered, the number of mirrors used and the relative
positions of those mirrors to one another.
The images come from an object chamber at the opposite end of the scope from the
eye aperture and this object chamber can be in many different forms. These include
tumble cells, liquid filled cells, wheels of stained, dichroic and millefiore
glass, liquid filled wands, marbles or maybe just a lens, which turns the whole
world into a kaleidoscope. With a lens replacing an object chamber the scope is
called a teleidoscope. Scope bodies are the creative work of artists, who employ
many fine materials to fashion their kaleidoscope bodies. These include hand-turned
wood; brass and other metals; stained, slumped, kiln-formed and handpainted glass
and many more.
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