phenakistiscopic
English
Adjective
phenakistiscopic (not comparable)
- Alternative form of phenakistoscopic
- 1865 September 16, “Science: British Association”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1977, London: […] James Holmes, […] John Francis, section A (Mathematical and Physical Science), page 375, column 1:
- About the same time, the author had also turned his attention towards the subject, and had practically experienced the difficulty of obtaining together the phenakistiscopic and stereoscopic effects without similar defects.
- 1971, Gerald Mast, “Birth”, in A Short History of the Movies, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, LCCN 76-128668, page 21:
- [Franz von] Uchatius’ experiments with lanterns continued, and by 1853 he had developed a Projecting Phenakistiscope, combining a phenakistiscopic disc with a single magic lantern.
- 2006, Mark Dorrian, “Cityscape with Ferris wheel: Chicago, 1893”, in Christoph Lindner, editor, Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Image), page 36:
- These were the images of course that Muybridge animated using the zoopraxiscope and of which he tried – it seems rather unsuccessfully – to sell engravings, mounted on phenakistiscopic discs, in his hall at the base of the Ferris wheel (Haas 1976: 176).
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