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Definition of Thaumatrope

Thaumatrope
Thaumatrope Thau"ma*trope, n. [Gr. ? a wonder + ? to turn.] (Opt.) An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn. Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two different objects, or halves of the same object, as a bird and a cage, which, when the card is whirled rapidlz round a diameter by the strings that hold it, appear to the eye combined in a single picture, as of a bird in its cage.

Meaning of Thaumatrope from wikipedia

- A thaumatrope is an optical toy that was po****r in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the...
- drawings on both sides have been claimed to be a kind of prehistoric thaumatropes that show motion when spun on a string. A pottery bowl dated to 2500...
- technology, but may also be displa**** via manual powered technology (e.g. thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, stroboscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope, flip book). The...
- one (off-)white surface when it spins fast. In April 1825 the first Thaumatrope was published by W. Phillips (in anonymous ****ociation with John Ayrton...
- a 2010 Philippine animated adventure film produced by Ambient Media, Thaumatrope Animation and Star Cinema. It is the first full length Philippine animated...
- Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Peninsula (2006) Cryptozoology (2008) Thaumatrope (2009) Soft Invasions (2012) Exoskeletons for Children (2017) Desert...
- 24 December 1856) was a British physician. He is a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with W. Phillips in April 1825. Paris made one of...
- Electrotachyscope Flip page Mutoscope Praxinoscope Stop motion Strobe light Thaumatrope Zoetrope Zoopraxiscope Close, Chuck. 'A Flipbook'. Publisher: Fliptomania...
- Peep show Phantasmagoria Phenakistiscope Praxinoscope Raree show Shadow play Stereoscope Thaumatrope Théâtre Optique Zoetrope Zograscope Zoopraxiscope...
- Paris reportedly got the idea for the thaumatrope from Herschel's trick. Claudet also noted in 1867 that the thaumatrope could create a three-dimensional illusion...