APPENDIX A. 



SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF TWO LECTURES 



ON 



ZOOPRAXOGRAPHY 



OE 



THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LOCOMOTION IN ITS RELA- 

 TION TO DESIGN IN ART. 



Origin of the Author's Investigations — Diagram of 

 the Studio at the University of Pennsylvania where the 

 Investigation was conducted — Batteries of Cameras, 

 Electro-exposers, Contact-motor, Chronograph, and other 

 apparatus used for photographing consecutive phases of 

 animal movements — Method of obtaining successive ex- 

 posures of moving objects synchronously from several 

 different points of view — Normal Locomotion of Animals 

 — Twelve consecutive phases of a single step of the Horse 

 while walking; also of the Ox, Elk, Goat, Buffalo, and 

 other cloven-footed animals; the Lion, Elephant, Camel, 

 Dog, and other soft-footed animals; of the Sloth while 

 suspended by its claws, and of the Child while crawling 

 on the ground; of man walking erect — The Normal 

 Method of Locomotion by all animals essentially the 

 same — The Quadrupedal Walk as interpreted by Pre- 

 historic Man, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, 

 Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and by eminent 

 artists of mediaeval and of modern times — The Statue of 

 Marcus Aurelius the great source of modern errors; Mar- 

 cus Aurelius in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, 

 Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, and many 



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