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Panorama of the past set to turn heads

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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20060415
Author:Judy Vickers

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON once said that Calton Hill offered the best viewpoint of anywhere in the city, as from up there you could see both Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's Seat.

So it is perhaps unsurprising that the very first panoramas - the landscape pictures that boasted 360-degree views and became a huge Victorian craze - were pioneered here in Edinburgh. It was 1796 when Robert Barker patented his system of representing an entire surround landscape through painting.

He began his work producing 360-degree images of the views from Calton Hill and the top of St Giles' cathedral.

By the time ...

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