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.
AAT
3000211187
13yrs ago
This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Terminology definition for: praxinoscopes" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/terminology/term-95210 Accessed: 2024-10-08 12:42:39
To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/terminology/term-95210|title=Terminology definition for: praxinoscopes|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-10-08 12:42:39|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/terminology/term-95210
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...