THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE
other cities—Albert Durer, Verrocchio, Meissonier, Paul
Delaroche, Landseer, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Thompson
Butler, &c.—Other Quadrupedal movements, the Amble,
Rack, Trot and Canter—Twelve phases in the Gallop of
a Horse—Origin of the modern representation of the Gal
lop—Gallop as depicted by the Hittites, North American
Indians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, the mediæval
artists—The modern conventional gallop; evidences of its
absurdity; acknowledgment by the Artist of the necessity
of reformation—Leap of the Horse, Kick of the Mule,
&c., all illustrated by photographs the size of life, from
nature, and comparisons made with the interpretation of
the same movements by artists of pre-historic, ancient,
mediæval and modern times—Demonstration of the action
of the primary feathers in the wing of a Bird while Fly
ing, and a solution of the complex problem of Soaring.
AFTER THE VARIOUS METHODS OF LOCOMOTION HAVE BEEN
DEMONSTRATED BY ANALYSIS, THEY WILL BE REPRESENTED SYN
THETICALLY BY THE ZOOPRAXISCOPE.