英语词汇“praxinoscope”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

praxinoscope

释义

praxinoscope|ˈpræksɪnəʊskəʊp|
[a. F. praxinoscope (M. Reynaud), irreg. f. Gr. πρᾶξις action + -scope.]
A scientific toy resembling the zoetrope, in which a series of pictures, representing consecutive positions of a moving body, are arranged along the inner circumference of a cylindrical or polygonal box open at the top, and having in the middle a corresponding series of mirrors in which the pictures are reflected; when the box is rapidly revolved, the successive reflexions blend and produce the impression of an actually moving object.
1882Nature 16 Nov. 60/2 M. Gaston Tissandier describes in La Nature an ingenious adaptation of the praxinoscope,..by means of which the images are projected on a screen, and are visible to a large assembly.1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 98 We have all heard of Mr. Eadweard Muybridge and his studies of galloping horses, etc. Some of us have even been fortunate enough to see the real things as exhibited by his praxinoscope.

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