Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 438
sidesreducing the light to a great extent, and consequently thelight and clearness of the object, require the instrument to THE PRAXINOSCOPE. 81 be set in rapid rotation, which greatly exaggerates therapidity of the movements represented, and without whichthe intermissions of the spectacle could… … The Zootrope. the substitution of one object for another is accomplishedwithout interruption in the vision, or solution of continuity,and consequently without a sensible reduction of light;in a word, the eye beholds continuously an image which,nevertheless, is incessantly changing before it. The…
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