This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891* Excerpt: ...below we watch their soaring flight, call it "an infinite capacity for takirjg pains," or what not. Meanwhile genius sails on. The whole question of the mechanics of flight is a difficult one. No doubt instantaneous photography will aid us in reaching a satisfactory solution. For one of the difficulties of the problem ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891* Excerpt: ...below we watch their soaring flight, call it "an infinite capacity for takirjg pains," or what not. Meanwhile genius sails on. The whole question of the mechanics of flight is a difficult one. No doubt instantaneous photography will aid us in reaching a satisfactory solution. For one of the difficulties of the problem is that the rapidity of motion is such that the eye cannot follow the wings in all the stages of their stroke. The European artist reprsents the flying bird with wings elevated, the Japanese with wings either raised or lowered. But instantaneous, photography catches them in these and all intermediate positions. In this way animal locomotion has been studied with great ingenuity and skill by M. Marey in France, and Mr. Muybridge in America. The pace of the horse has been photographed in all its phases when the animal is at full gallop. And very strange attitudes do the legs assume, attitudes never seen, and never to be seen by the eye of men in the living animal; for the eye is not quick enough to catch them; and therefore attitudes to be sedulously shunned by the artist who knows his business. When a gig is going fast the wheel-spokes become a mere blur, and the artist who wishes to paint a gig in motion must thus represent them. Instantaneous photography, catching the spokes in a small fraction of a second of time, prints them sharp and well defined. But this is not how they are seen. So photography catches the legs of the galloping horse, or the wings of the flying pigeon, in an isolated instant of sequent time, and prints them thus arrested. No eye has seen them thus, and no brush with brain behind it should so represent them. The artist should study these interesting and valuable photographs, but not copy them. In the instantane...
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