In 2012, it was reported that a prehistoric thaumatrope had been discovered in the Chauvet Caves in France, but it is very uncertain if this little disc was actually perceived as a thaumatrope when it was made.
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In 2012, it was reported that a prehistoric thaumatrope had been discovered in the Chauvet Caves in France, but it is very uncertain if this little disc was actually perceived as a thaumatrope when it was made.
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The theory of Thaumatrope induction was presented by Peter Mark Roget in 1824 in his paper " Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures ".
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The 1827 book " Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest, being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports " featured the thaumatrope and warned against inferior copies.
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Charles Babbage recalled in 1864 that the thaumatrope was invented by the geologist William Henry Fitton after he ( Babbage ) had told Fitton how the astronomer John Herschel had made him see two sides of a shilling at once by spinning it.
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While Roget's explanation of the illusion was probably wrong, his consideration of the illusion of motion is seen as an important point in the history of film, and possibly influenced the development of the Thaumatrope, the Phenakistiscope and the Zoetrope.
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The first commercial thaumatrope was registered at Stationers'Hall on April 2, 1825 and published by W . Phillips in London as " The Thaumatrope; being Rounds of Amusement or How to Please and Surprise By Turns ", sold in boxes of 12 or 18 discs.
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The first commercial thaumatrope was registered at Stationers'Hall on April 2, 1825 and published by W . Phillips in London as " The Thaumatrope; being Rounds of Amusement or How to Please and Surprise By Turns ", sold in boxes of 12 or 18 discs.
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Roget's consideration of the illusion of motion was an early catalyst for moving pictures, and influenced the development of the visual illusion, moving picture, toys of the Thaumatrope, the Phenakistiscope, the Zoetrope, the Praxinoscope, and Flip Books which would influence development of camera and projection of those moving images by the important inventors of Louis Le Prince, Thomas Edison, and the Lumi�re brothers.
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There are also artifacts galore, about 700 from the museum's collection of 70, 000, including some of the earliest devices that produced moving images, like a twirling disk called a Thaumatrope from about 1835, as well as a 1910 wooden Pathe 35-millimeter camera of the kind popularized by D . W . Griffith and other film pioneers, and vintage television sets like the futuristic but ill-fated Philco Predicta of 1959, the Edsel of televisions.
