Stephen Adams, from Telegraph.co.uk is reporting:

Brian May, QUEEN's lead guitarist, has published another book that will confound his rock fans: a collection of quaint Magic Eye Victorian photographs.

Three years ago May surprised many by coauthoring a book on astrophysics with Sir Patrick Moore, called Bang! The Complete History of Universe.

Now May, who penned 22 Queen hits including 'Fat Bottomed Girls' and 'Who Wants to Live Forever?', has turned his polymath's gaze on another unlikely subject – mid 19th century stereoscopic photography.

He and Elena Vidal, a photo-historian, have published a book of pairs of images, each taken from a slightly different angle, that a Victorian pioneer took of vanishing rural life in the 1850s.

When viewed correctly, the photographs appear to merge into a single three-dimensional image, in much the same way as a hidden image is revealed by staring at a 'Magic Eye' poster.

A Village Lost and Found documents May and Vidal's decade-long crusade to track down scores of dual-image cards produced by one mystery Victorian photographer – who enigmatically stamped his cards 'TRW' – and find the unnamed village in the pictures.

While that might appear an idiosyncratic pastime for rock star Brian May CBE, he revealed in the preface to the book that he had been "fascinated" by 3D illusions since childhood.

Such an interests should perhaps not be too surprising, as May studied physics at Imperial College London, obtaining a 2:1, before co-founding Queen with Freddie Mercury, John Deacon and Roger Taylor in 1970.

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