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English
Noun
phénakistiscope (plural phénakistiscopes)
- Alternative form of phenakistoscope
1969, Roy Paul Madsen, Animated Film: Concepts, Methods, Uses, New York, N.Y.: Interland Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 7:In 1829 he [Joseph Plateau] constructed a circular device, the phénakistiscope, on which sixteen pictures were mounted (Figure 1.5).
1981, Lynda Corey Claassen, “National Museum of American History”, in Finders’ Guide to Prints and Drawings in the Smithsonian Institute, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, page 90:Motion picture prehistory is documented by hand-colored phénakistiscope (1832) and Fantascope (1833) discs, by zoetrope strips (c1867), and by woodcuts showing peep shows;
1996, Fatimah Tobing Rony, “Notes to Chapter Two”, in The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 231:Throughout the early twentieth century, [Félix] Regnault wrote about cinema and its history, a history he saw as an evolution originating from both science and popular entertainment, beginning with the concept of the persistence of the image on the retina, [Joseph] Plateau’s phénakistiscope, and [Émile] Reynaud’s praxinoscope, and reaching its apex with the invention of cinema by [Étienne-Jules] Marey, whom Regnault referred to as le père du du cinéma (Félix Regnault, “L’évolution du cinéma,” La revue scientifique [1922]: 7985).
2004, Norman E. Tutorow, “The First Motion Picture”, in The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus, Spokane, Wash.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, →ISBN, page 474:
French
Etymology
Ancient Greek φενακιστής (phenakistḗs, “cheat, imposter”) + -scope, from φενακίζω (phenakízō, “to cheat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
phénakistiscope m (plural phénakistiscopes)
- phenakistoscope
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