Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel when seen through Vertical Apertures
A curious optical deception takes place when a carriage wheel, rolling along the ground, is viewed through the intervals of a series of vertical bars.-Peter Mark Roget, Explanation of an Optical Deception (1825)Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel When Seen Through Vertical Apertures (1825) describes the research of Peter Mark Roget, a pioneer in identifying phenomena that advanced the invention of filmmaking. Here, Roget wrote about his studies and his observations of how light is transmitted, based initially on looking at the world through a series of slits such as a vertical Venetian blind or palis…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64679-564-2
- EAN: 9781646795642
- Produktnummer: 38307263
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1824
- Seitenangabe: 20 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.1 cm 35 g
- Gewicht: 35
Über den Autor
DR. PETER MARK ROGET (1779-1869) was born in London, England, to a family who struggled with mental illness, to the point of institutionalization and suicide. To create order, Roget began making lists at age eight, compiling 15,000 words in his first edition of the Thesaurus, which was published after his retirement from practicing medicine.
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