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#OnThisDay in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took this series of images of a racehorse in motion. A former governor of California reportedly had bet on whether all the hooves were airborne at once, and hired Muybridge to settle the debate: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-attitudes-of-animals-in-motion-illustrated-with-the-zoopraxiscope-1882 #OTD
@publicdomainrev Rebecca Solnit wrote a fascinating book that fills in a lot of the details of Muybridge's work and what it led to - River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
That former California governor was Leland Stanford, founder of his eponymous private university, built to rival the public's UC Berkeley.
Stanford became governor based on the millions he made as one of the Big Four, the four men behind the Central Pacific Railway.
The Big Four originally got their start and their wealth, though, as merchants, selling goods to rubes, hoping to make their fortunes during the California gold rush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(Central_Pacific_Railroad)
16 photographs of a horse running. In the second, third and fourth images all four feet are clearly off the ground. In the first and last images the horses legs are in the same positions.
@publicdomainrev wasn't this referenced in Nope by Jordan Peele ?
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