Meaning of zoöpraxiscope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of zoopraxiscope.
   alt-of, alternative
2. An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.
   historical

Examples

“A few years before, he bought his youngest girl a zoopraxiscope for her birthday, though he alone kept playing with it, after she grew bored. Now those squadrons of flapping geese and parades of bucking broncos that come⟳ alive when the glass drum spins animate his brain.”

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