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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, the Belgian physicist who studied optical illusions and inspired Google doodle The historical legacy of Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, the Belgian physicist who was born exactly 218 years ago, is one of those as undeniable as controversial. It is one of those cases of simultaneous inventions, where two (or more) scientists dispute authorship, while many others ask for recognition for those who inspired them. By honoring him in the doodle of the day, Google explains that Plateau's research "on visual perception inspired him to invent a device he called a phenacystiscope , which led

to the birth of cinema by creating the illusion of a moving image . "

Along these same lines there are innumerable encyclopedic, scientific and artistic publications that award these achievements alone.

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The explanation of science for the most recent optical illusion of going viral The 5 best auditory illusions (because you can't always believe in what you hear) For example, an article published in 2012 in the journal Physics in Perspective explains that he is known for "his innovative work on the effect of light on the human retina," and that he was "the first person to produce moving images, for what is considered the father of cinema . " Skip the recommendations You may also be interested The ingenious wonders that three Persian brothers invented in the Baghdad House of Wisdom in the 9th century In what century have there been more changes? (and it is not necessarily the XX) 7 lucky cases in which gambling changed math The unexpected revelations of the oldest map of an inhabited place in the world End of recommendations. Such is its importance for the seventh art that the "Belgian Oscars", the awards to the film industry that for more than 20 years were delivered in the country, bore his name. But it was also a scientific eminence. After his death, in 1883, the prestigious magazine Nature published an obituary where he says that Plateau "occupied a remarkable position in the scientific world for more than 50 years . " "Before reaching middle age, he encountered the terrible misfortune of losing his sight while conducting innovative experiments on the physiological effects of light. His scientific career became more active accordingly!", The text says. Specifically, Plateau led a series of studies related to ocular physiology that made him a pioneer in the description of the mechanism thanks number Google Doodles Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau, whose visual perception research enabled the phénakistiscope—creating a moving image illusion that led to the birth of cinema 🎥

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Video @GoogleDoodles number It was so that in 1832 he developed the phenacystiscope , an apparatus composed of a rotating disk with a series of illustrations and slits that used that ocular perception to give the illusion of movement. That is why it is said that Plateau, with his theoretical ideas and practical invention, laid the foundations of modern cinema. But of course, they were not the only foundation. And, in fact, he was not even the only one who invented a mechanism such as the phenacystiscope. The others Austrian mathematician Simon Stampfer not only studied the same optical illusions but also developed the same rotating disk mechanism to put it into practice. That is to say, by chance, two scientists created the phenacystiscope independently and simultaneously in Brussels and Vienna . "The phenacystiscope did not simply arise from the minds of its two inventors in a rapture (or abduction) of genius without other precursors," researcher Richard J. Leskosky wrote in 1993 in Indiana University Press . Alfred Wallace: the scientist who discovered evolution (in addition to Darwin) For example, the article cites as another predecessor of the cinema to the taumotrope , another device that reproduces the movement through two images and was created in 1824. In the words of the famous American anthropologist Alfred Kroeber: " The whole history of inventions is an endless chain of parallel instances ." "There may be those who see in these events only a meaningless game of fortuitous whims," he continues, "but there will be others who will reveal a great and inspiring inevitability that rises above personality accidents."