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Praxinoscopes

Scope note

Optical toys that create moving images, consisting of a series of sequential drawings mounted on the inner wall of a revolving drum and facing the center where they are reflected by a many-sided drum containing a set of mirrors equal in number to the number of drawings and revolving in the opposite direction, the whole to be viewed through a special eyepiece; developed in the late 1870s as an improvement over zoetropes and phenakistoscopes.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000211187

Broader Terms used

optical toys

Equivalent Terms used

praxinoscope

Created

13yrs ago

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