. Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular. Animal locomotion. APPENDIX ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. The results of the investigation executed for the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania are SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE SHEETS OF ILLUS- TRATIONS, containing more than 20,000 figures of men, women, and children, animals and birds, actively engaged in walking, galloping, flying, working, jumping, fighting, dancing, playing at base-ball, cricket, and other athletic games, or other actions incidental to every-day life, which illustrate motion or th
. Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular. Animal locomotion. APPENDIX ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. The results of the investigation executed for the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania are SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE SHEETS OF ILLUS- TRATIONS, containing more than 20,000 figures of men, women, and children, animals and birds, actively engaged in walking, galloping, flying, working, jumping, fighting, dancing, playing at base-ball, cricket, and other athletic games, or other actions incidental to every-day life, which illustrate motion or the play of muscles. These sheets of illustrations are conventionally called ''; EACH PLATE IS COMPLETE IN ITSELF WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY OTHER PLATE, and illustrates the successive phases of a single action, photographed with automatic electro-photographic ap- paratus at regulated and accurately recorded intervals of time, consecutively from one point of view; or, consecutively AND synchronously from tvio^ or from three points of view. A series of twelve consecutive exposures, from each of the three points of view, are represented by an outline tracing on a small scale of plate 579, a complete stride of a horse walking; the intervals of exposures are recorded as being one hundred and twenty-six one-thousandths of a second. 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania
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