The Science Of Animal Locomotion Zoopraxography PDF Download

Excerpt from Descriptive Zoopraxography or the Science of Animal Locomotion: With Selected Outline Tracings Reduced From Some of the Illustrations of "Animal Locomotion," An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, Commenced 1872, Completed 1885, and Published 1887, Under the Auspices of the Un IN the year 1872, while the Author was engaged in his official duties as Photographer of the United States Government for the Pacific coast, there arose in the city of San Francisco one of those controversies upon Animal Locomotion, which has engaged the attention of mankind from the dawn of symbolical design, to the present era of reformation in the artistic expres sion of animal movements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.