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Joseph Plateau

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Belgian physicist (1801-1883)

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other.

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1872Commander of the Order of Leopold
1870Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1859Officer of the Order of Leopold
Knight of the Order of Leopold

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

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Lived 1801 to 1883 · aged 81
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