The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 791
o thatof the figures. The figures repre- sent some action at successive in-stants ; thus, in the first picture theman has his bow drawn to oneside ; in the next it is pushed alittle farther along, and so on. Ifany one look through the slitswhile the discs are turned, anddirect his attention to any… … Zoetrope—Fig. 3. between the slits then comes be-tween. Thus he will see in thesame place a succession of momen-tary pictures, each in a slightlydifferent posture, and it will seemto him as though he saw the manplaying the bass viol. In this wayan endless variety of movementsmay be counterfeited.…
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