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ANIMUS MOVING ON CANVAS.,;THEZOOPRAXiacoPE DOES THE BUSANK8N. ■ 1A Talk With Prof. Eadweard Mujr-bridge~H»* Lift Work—The University of Pennsylvania and Ite Faith in Hie DiscoveriesCixcinjrAn, January 15.The recent lecture of Prof. Eadweard 1Muybridge upon A ttidutes of Animals in 1Motion has created no end of small talkIn the city, and there seem* to be a generaldctire for a repetition—or a continuance—ofthe delightfully novel subject. The pro*lessor has devoted the last seventeen yearsof bis life to this study and the practical re- «suit la a magnificent work upon AnimalLocomotion—a work that none but thewealthy can possess for, complete in eleven volumes, bound in full Russia leather, it , costs $K00. An abridged edition of 100 plates sells for $100. It was jthe faith of the University of Pennsylvania in the worth of the work that made its publication possible, for an outlay of $35,000 was made before a single plate was produced.Far from being a rich institution the uni- j versityeould ill afford to sink so much money even in so valuable a work, and Prof. Muybridge has pledge*! himself to re- lt;imburse it through sales ot the hook. And his lectures are mere byplays—methods to , call attention ta that marvel of art—an electro photographic invettion of consecutive phases of animal movements.The audience of the Odeon marvmea at 1 the creationa thrown upon the canvas— birds flying, horses galloping, trotting and pacing—animals and men in all phase# of 1 locomotion. 8#id the professor:“I adapted my instrument—the zoonrax-iscope—from a toy that was introduced some ten or fifteen years ago—a band box arrangement through the slots of which comical pictures of boys at play and the like were shown by turning the box around. 1And the mystery whicft so puzzled the Odeon audience is solved. Metseonier, the great artiet, was tbs first man in Europe to acknowledge the value of the profeaor’s discoveries, and at bta lecture on TheValue of Photographic R*»e«rd) to Art, inParis, Albert Wolff, of the Figaro, declared that no such assemblage bad aver been seen in the French metropolis, representing as it did the arts, sciences and literati of 1 France.ill# ital ■ A V* a mkiJmmi m «i I «ia ibKa mami
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Weekly Cincinnati Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 24, 1889
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