Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of phenakistoscopic.
[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.
1971, Gerald Mast, “Birth”, in A Short History of the Movies, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, →LCCN, page 212 more examples
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.
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 1These 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).
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
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