Full text: Muybridge, Eadweard: Descriptive Zoopraxography

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.
	        
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