Le cœur mis à nu - continued...

Czermak, however, wanted to take this technology one step further. In 1855 he presented a device that combined the properties of the phenakistiscope and the stereoscope. The "stereophoroscope" was meant to depict the movements "that seem to take place in the dimension of depth" (see Czermak, Johann Nepomuk: Das Sterophoroskop [1855] (1879)). In this context, Czermak also suggested making use of stereoscopic photographs.

The three-dimensional view of the depth of organic movements thus figures as the vanishing point of an experimental life science that would approach this point only much later, in the twentieth century, within different scientific and technological configurations.