> > From: Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/04/12 Wed AM 05:55:52 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Eadweard Muybridge > > Gautam Sarup wrote: > > <trivia> > > > > Muybridge was born Edward Muggeridge. He later changed his name to > > Muybridge. The horse photography was evidently to settle a bet with > > Leland Stanford (of Stanford University fame.) > > > > Among his achievements, other than those Tom mentioned, is that > > he took several panoramic photographs of San Francisco in the > > late 1870s using thirteen cameras at a time. > > > > </trivia> > > > > Cheers, > > Gautam > > > > On 4/11/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sunday, April 9 it was "the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, born in > >> Kingston-on-the-Thames, England (1830). He emigrated to California in the > >> 1850s, where he took up photography and quickly became one of the first > >> internationally known photographers. Between 1867 and 1872 he took more > >> than > >> 2000 photographs, many of them views of the Yosemite Valley. > >> > >> It was Eadweard Muybridge who designed a new camera that could take a > >> picture in one-thousandth of a second. To test his improvement, he set up > >> twenty-four cameras along a race track with trip wires to pull the > >> shutters. > >> With those cameras, he managed to take a series of pictures of a horse > >> galloping, proving for the first time that all four of a horse's hooves > >> will > >> sometimes be off the ground at the same time". > >> > >> >From "The Writer's Almanac". > >> > >> Tom C. > >> > >> > >> Tom C. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > Are you sure it was galloping and not trotting? I always thought it was > trotting. You don't need a camera > to see all a horses feet off the ground (at once) when its galloping -- > it's pretty obvious. >
Didn't stop most painters showing it at the wrong point of the stride. Always made me wonder about their powers of observation. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
