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Walking, taking off hat
Eadweard J. Muybridge
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from Animal Locomotion (1888) by Eadweard Muybridge
“Fig. 17 is the result of superimposed tracings of the upper series of pictures in Plate 545. In this instance the subject was simply seated on a chair facing the cameras. There was no table used. The model had already induced a number of convulsions, and was now asked to induce a convulsion by keeping the fingers in delicate contact with the things. In a short time, as shown by the figure, a mose violent convulsion was the result.
The individual pictures of this series are especially interesting. The entire pose or attitude assumed by the subject is, so to speak, hysteroidal, while the purposeless movements of the limbs suggest those of chorea, than which, however, they are infinitely more rapid.” -
Étienne-Jules Marey, Record of the Movement of a Muscle, as found in Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command.
Above: Responses of the frog’s leg to stimulation by an electric current.
Below: Coagulation of the muscle and gradual loss of function as the effect of rising temperature.
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Apollo 17 Splashdown
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Portrait of Portra 400
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All That RemainsAll of the Lights
Infrared images of the dusty remains of the oldest documented example of an exploding star. Dust associated with the blast wave appears red in this image, while dust in the background appears yellow and green. Stars in the field of view appear blue. RCW 86 must have exploded into a large, wind-blown cavity.
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cautious science & total surveillance: a memoir
MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son’s First Words, Graphs It
Cognitive scientist Deb Roy blew the curve for Flip cam-packing proud pops. Since he and his wife brought their son home from the hospital, Roy has captured his every movement and word with a series of fisheye-lens cameras installed in every room. The purpose was to understand how we learn language.
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Ineluctable proof of fidelity.
Shortly after discovering it, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen took a demonstrative X-ray of his wife’s hand, which revealed her to be married…
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Well, what about it? Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don’t make sense. And that’s not science. That’s just taking notes.
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pages from Popular Science from 1872 to 2007 – science started using more pictures.
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Scientific American cover from October 1961
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I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be.
Lord Kelvin
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