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Definition of Phantasmascope

phantasmascope
Phantascope Phan"ta*scope, n. [Gr. ? image + -scope.] An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.
Phantasmascope
Phantasmascope Phan*tas"ma*scope, n. See Phantascope.

Meaning of Phantasmascope from wikipedia

- involved with. By then, he had an authorized set published first as Phantasmascope (by Ackermann in London), which some months later was changed into Fantascope...
- in animation and film. In 1834, Roget claimed to have invented "the Phantasmascope or Phenakisticope" in the spring of 1831, a few years before Plateau...
- Plateau's invention of the phénakisticope (published in London as "phantasmascope") British mathematician William George Horner thought up a cylindrical...
- pictures". Coleman applied stereoscopy to the existing principle of toy phantasmascopes using rotating discs. A series of still stereographic images with successive...
- later, Plateau published his invention in England, initially as the Phantasmascope and later as the Fantascope, clearly referring to phantasmagoria. Stampfer...
- ancestors, like the phonograph, the phenakistiscope (originally dubbed phantasmascope by inventor Joseph Plateau), the zoetrope, the praxinoscope and the...
- the same year published his designs with Ackermann in London as the Phantasmascope and later as the Fantascope, after the device had become known as the...