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December 21, 2015 11:01 am GMT

The photos that revolutionized how we understand motion

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Image: Eadweard Muybridge/Boston Public Library

In 1872, California governor and businessman Leland Stanford hired landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle a popular question: When a horse gallops, is there a point where all of its hooves are off the ground at the same time?

Muybridge began experimenting with ways to capture motion too fast for the human eye to discern, but the project was put on hold when Muybridge shot and killed his wife’s lover and was put on trial for murder. The jury acquitted him on the grounds of justifiable homicide, and he decided to cool his heels in Central America for nine months Read more...

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