Phenakistiscope / Phenakistoscope: Joseph Plateau: Early Visual Media - Pre-cinema

JOSEPH PLATEAU COLLECTION U-GENT
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SCIENCE MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF GHENT

The Phenakistiscope Collection

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801 - 1883)

^{^{Phénakistiscope Disc with a flower visited by a Bee}} ^{Phenakistiscope collection}^{© Ghent University science museum U-Gent}		^{^{Daguerreotype portrait of Joseph Plateau} ^{Joseph Plateau collection phot. Joseph Pelizzaro (1843)}}
Return to Joseph Plateau Introduction		Daguerreotype portrait depicting Joseph Plateau

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^{^{Phénakistiscope Disc with Pirouetting male dancer}}		^{^{Phénakistiscope Disc with Skull emerging from centre}}



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^{^{Phénakistiscope Disc with swallow in flight}}		^{^{Phénakistiscope Disc with frogs and grass}}

I'm most thankfull to Professor Jos Uyttenhove & Professor Maurice Dorikens (University Ghent) for permission to use these images from the world famous Joseph Plateau collection.