Descriptive Zoopraxography Part 5

"At the conversazione of the Royal Society much interest was excited by Mr.

Eadweard Muybridge's lecture. The ZOOPRAXISCOPE afforded the spectator an opportunity of studying by synthesis, the facts of motion which are also demonstrated by a.n.a.lysis."--_Ill.u.s.trated London News._

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"A really marvellous series of plates."--_Nature, London._

"Artistic people are all talking about Mr. Muybridge, who has come hither with that rare desideratum--_something new_."--London CORRESPONDENCE, _Philadelphia Times._

"It is impossible to do justice in this short time to the extraordinary exhibition given by Mr. Muybridge at the Inst.i.tute of Technology.... The interest they excite in the mind of the spectator is indescribable."--_Sunday Gazette, Boston._

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"The photographs have solved many complicated questions as to animal locomotion."--_Art Journal, London._

"The effect was weird, yet fascinating. Plaudit followed plaudit. A better pleased a.s.semblage of people it would be difficult to find."--_Boston Journal._

"... Mr. Muybridge then gave his famous lecture and demonstration on Animal Locomotion. The hall (St. James') was crowded, and many were unable to obtain seats."--Report of the Photographic Convention, _British Journal of Photography_.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 17. ELEPHANT AMBLING.]

"A demonstration that vividly interests all the world."--_L'Ill.u.s.tration, Paris._

"Many of these pictures have great--indeed, astonis.h.i.+ng--beauty. The interest which they present from the scientific point of view is three-fold:--(_a_) They are important as examples of a very nearly perfect method of investigation by photographic and electrical appliances. (_b_) They have also a great value on account of the actual facts of natural history and physiology which they record. (_c_) They have, thirdly, a quite distinct, and perhaps their most definite, interest in their relation to psychology."--PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F. R. S., in _Nature_.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 18. LION WALKING.]

"Mr. Meissonier's critical guests were evidently sceptical as to the accuracy of many of the positions; but when the photographs were turned rapidly, and made to pa.s.s before the lantern, their truthfulness was demonstrated most successfully."--_Standard, London._

"Meissonier, devoting himself to his friends, evidently cared little for personal compliments; he was anxious for the well-deserved distinction of his _protege_ Muybridge.... 'C'est merveilleus.e.m.e.nt arrange!' said Alexandre Dumas. 'C'est que la nature _compose_ cranement bien!' replied Meissonier."--_Le Temps_, Paris.

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"The sensation of the day, and the topic of popular conversation."--_Boston Daily Advertiser._

"The rapid movements by different animals were most interesting: and hurdle-racing by horses--the very whipping process being visible--brought down the house."--_Boston Herald._

"On revolving the instrument, the figures that have been derided by so many as impossible absurdities, started into life, and such a perfect representation of a racehorse at full speed as was never before witnessed was immediately visible."--_The Field, London._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 21. BABOON WALKING.]

"Mr. Muybridge showed that many of our best artists have been in the habit of depicting animals in positions which they never a.s.sume in nature."--_Chambers' Edinburgh Journal._

"The large school-room (Clifton College) was crowded. The head master presided. Loud applause and frequent laughter greeted the life-sized photographs from nature, which by a rapid revolution of the ZOOPRAXISCOPE, showed among other actions, the ambling of an elephant, the gallop of a race-horse, the somersault of a gymnast and the flight of a bird."--_Bristol Mercury._

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"The lecture theatre of the ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS was filled to overflowing."--_Athenaeum, London._

"The Royal Dublin Society's Theatre was filled to its utmost capacity yesterday afternoon, when Mr. Muybridge resumed his course of Lectures. The demonstration is simply marvellous."--_Daily Express, Dublin._

"The result of years of labor, and of large expenditure of money is at last laid before the public in this magnificent work, and the result is one of which Mr. Muybridge and the University of Pennsylvania may well be proud."--_Evening Post_, New York.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 23. BUFFALO GALLOPING.]

"A Lecture of an exceptionally interesting character."--_Nottingham Guardian._

"There was a crowded attendance. Throughout the lecture Mr. Muybridge retained the close interest of his audience, and drew from them frequent and warm applause."--_The Scotsman, Edinburgh._

"In all my long experience of London life I cannot recall a single instance where such warm tributes of admiration have been so unsparingly given by the greatest in the land, as in the case of Mr. Muybridge's lectures."--OLIVE LOGAN in the _Morning Call, San Francisco_.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 24. ELK GALLOPING.]

"Mr. Muybridge ill.u.s.trated his lecture with a series of most valuable photographs, as well as that most fascinating of scientific toys--the ZOOPRAXISCOPE."--_Magazine of Art, London._

"His labors attracted considerable attention in the world of science, while among artists and art critics a pretty controversy set in on the subject of the horse and his representation in art, which is likely to be revived and extended to other fields.... With Mr. Muybridge, 'Instantaneous Photography' has acquired a new significance, ..."--_Sat.u.r.day Review, London._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 25. MONKEYS CLIMBING A COCOA PALM.]

"No parallel in the history of photography."--_Photographic Times, New York._

"An exhibition which Raphael, Tintoretto, Michael Angelo, and other great masters of the Renaissance would have travelled all over Europe to see."--_Evening Transcript, Boston._

"The audience was astonished and delighted at the marvellous demonstrations of Animal Locomotion that were brought before them.... The most remarkable feature of the British a.s.sociation meeting this year."--_Newcastle Journal._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 28. GREYHOUND GALLOPING.]

"The effects of the ZOOPRAXISCOPE made up one of the most unique and instructive entertainments imaginable."--_Boston Daily Globe._

"A more curious, entertaining, and suggestive exhibition it has not been our good fortune for a long time to attend."--_Sacramento Record-Union._

"Everybody has heard something of the wonderful success which Mr. Muybridge has achieved; and in no country in the world is greater interest felt in his work, particularly as regards horses, than in England."--_Engineering, London._

[Ill.u.s.tration: 29. MULE, BUCKING AND KICKING.]

"Simply marvels of the photographer's art."--_Mercury_, Leeds.

"Not the least instructive part of the Lecture was the contrast between the positions of animals as shown in ancient and modern art, with their true positions as shown by themselves in the camera."--_New York Tribune._

"Professor Marey invited to his residence a large number of the most eminent men in Europe for the purpose of meeting Mr. Muybridge, and witnessing an exhibition that should be placed before the whole Parisian public."--_Le Globe, Paris._

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"The art critic and the connoisseur will find a study of Mr. Muybridge's work of inestimable value in aiding them to criticize intelligently."--_Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia._

"The applause which greeted these wonderful pictures from the brilliant company was hearty in the extreme; and all predicted a new era was open to art, and new resources made available for the use of artists."--_Galignani's Messenger, Paris._

"Of immense interest and value."--_Lippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia._

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