Classic Study (3 results)

Limp leather covers. Condition: Near fine. Black, bonded leather as new, except dedication on presentation page in small ink letters. no dj as issued, illustrated display box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A classic work of scholarship, from an expert who manages to impart his enthusiasm for the subject along with a considerable amount of knowledge. A justly celebrated study. This is the Reprint Society's Second Edition, which uses the revised text. It has no jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

(Muybridge, Edweard). "A Horse's Motion Scientifically Determined" in Scientific American, 19 October 1878, vol 39 no. 16, pg 241 (about 1000 words, plus front page) in the issue of pp 239-254. There is a terrific illustration for this article that takes up nearly the entire front page ("the science of the horse's motion") with an assemblage showing the horse's motion in 18 progressive photographs. Excellent content. The issue is in GOOD condition (5/10 or so), and is extracted from a larger bound volume. The imagery seems to be from the first illusrated appearance of Muybridge's experiments at Palo Alto that had been published as cabinet cards in June 1878. The appearance of the images and the description of the event in Scientific American in October 1878 may be the first "mass market" illustrated presentation of the achievement naming Muybridge specifically as the technical expert and inventor (being supported by Leland Stanford). (I should point out that the most famous image of the galloping horse series does not include the "unsupported motion" shot of the horse with all four hooves off the ground at the same time?but then the horse being used was a trotter, so that explains the absence of the famous image.) A full large book by Muybridge (The Horse in Motion) was published in 1882. We read from the opening of the short article: "A short time since the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN briefly noted the fact that Mr. Muybridge, of San Francisco, had perfected an automatic electro-photographic apparatus, by means of which he had succeeded in recording the action of horses in motion. Mr. Muybridge courteously responded by forwarding a series of instantaneous photographs, showing with absolute accuracy the motions of horses when walking, trotting, and running. From these we have selected two series, the first showing the movement of the horse " Abe Edgington," while walking at a 15 minute gait; the secondshowing the same horse while trotting at a 2:24 gait. These?omitting the driver and his sulky?we have had enlarged and skillfully engraved, as shown in the illustration on the first page." "In taking the negatives of these photographs, Mr. Muybridge employed a series of cameras, operated by electricity, and so placed as to fix with absolute accuracy the several phases in the continuous action of the horse while making one stride. The exposure for each negative was about the two thousandth part of a second. The vertical lines on the background are twenty-eight inches apart; the heavy horizontal line represents the level of the track; the others mark elevations of four, eight, and twelve inches respectively. These lines are necessary for the analysis of the movement of the horse."--from the beginning of the article.