Praxinoscope Theater

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(P. 133.)

Artist

Name:: Gilbert, C.
Dates:: 18??-18??
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Pérot, E.
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les récréations scientifiques
Author:: Tissandier, Gaston
Publisher:: Paris: G. Masson, n.d. [1884]

Description:

A girl wearing a hat stands opposite a seated man at a table on which a praxinoscope theater has been placed. This device, invented in 1879 by Charles-Émile Reynaud, consists of a wooden case with a rectangular viewing hole and a mirror drum that allows for the animation of sequences of twelve frames.

The caption reads in the original French: Le nouveau praxinoscope-théâtre de M. Reynaux [sic].

Caption taken from the English edition titled Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d. [ca. 1882].

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