{"id":594,"date":"2008-06-03T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/06\/03\/more-than-mickey-mouse\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T21:58:20","slug":"more-than-mickey-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/06\/03\/more-than-mickey-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room &#8212; More Than Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2008\/06\/view-master-smallest2.jpg\" title=\"view-master-smallest2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2008\/06\/view-master-smallest2.jpg\" alt=\"view-master-smallest2.jpg\" \/><\/a>Visitors to the John Martin Rare Book Room are often bemused when they spot a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fisher-price.com\/fp.aspx?t=page&amp;a=go&amp;s=viewmaster&amp;p=landing_flash&amp;site=us\" title=\"Viewmaster official site\">View-Master<\/a> resting on one of the bookcases. If you\u2019re under the age of sixty-five you probably owned one of these devices along with several View-Master reels depicting far-off countries, cartoon characters or comic book heroes rendered in 3-D. But why a viewer in the rare book room? In 1962, Dr. David L. Bassett, anatomist from the University of Washington, working with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master created the \u201cStereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy\u201d &#8212; over 1,500 slides of three-dimensional color images of human dissection. Nearly fifty years later the 25 volume collection remains a marvel of relatively simple technology that still elicits gasps of wonder from viewers as they behold in stark clarity the \u201cin-depth\u201d photographs of body structures and cavities. Each of the slides is accompanied by commentary written by Dr. Bassett (the lone dissector) and a line diagram that labels all of the structures. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2008\/06\/mandible-small.jpg\" title=\"mandible-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"7\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2008\/06\/mandible-small.jpg\" hspace=\"20\" alt=\"mandible-small.jpg\" \/><\/a> The Hardin Library is fortunate to own a complete set of this amazing work which is beginning to arouse the curiosity of anatomists interested in using high-tech solutions to bring 3-D to desktop computers. In the meantime the marvelous handiwork of Mr. Gruber and Dr. Bassett\u00a0is at your disposal.<br \/>\nYou can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/04\/21\/science\/Bassett_index.html\">read about and view more images of Dr. Bassett\u2019s work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to the John Martin Rare Book Room are often bemused when they spot a View-Master resting on one of the bookcases. If you\u2019re under the age of sixty-five you probably owned one of these devices along with several View-Master reels depicting far-off countries, cartoon characters or comic book heroes rendered in 3-D. But why<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2008\/06\/03\/more-than-mickey-mouse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room &#8212; More Than Mickey Mouse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}