CONTENTS XV 



CHAPTER XVII 



MICROSCOPIC CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY 



PAG R 



Summary. — Various movements observable within the field of 

 the microscope — Applications of chronophotography to the 

 study of these movements — Difficulties of the subject — 

 Special arrangement of the apparatus for chronophotography 

 on rixed plates and on moving films — Retraction of the stalk 

 in vorticella — M ivement of the blood in capillary vessels — 

 Movements of the zoospores in the cells of conferva — The 

 use of the solar microscope in chronophotography — The easy 

 application of this method 291 



CHAPTER XVIII 



SYNTHETIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ELEMENTS OF AN 

 ANALYZED MOVEMENT 



Summary. — Plateau's method; his phenakistoscope — The zoo- 

 trope; its applications to the study of horses' paces and 

 their relations to one another— The use of instantaneous 

 photography in connecti n with the zootrope — Muybridge, 

 Anschiitz — Scientific app.ications of Plateau's method — 

 Points of a good apparatus— Improvements made by diffe- 

 rent authors — Attempts at constructing a chronophoto- 

 graphic projector 301 



Index 319 



