Culminating Point of the Peak of Teneriffe

Culminating Point of the Peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 Feet high, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain. Photographed by Charles Piazzi Smith (1819 - 1900), astronomer. Printed by A J Melhuish under the superintendence of James Glaisher FRS and published by Lovell Reeve. From ‘Teneriffe, an astronomer’s experiment: or specialities of a residence above the clouds’. This was the first published book to be illustrated with stereographs, pairs of photographs designed to be viewed in three-dimensions using a viewer called a stereoscope.