The horse in motion - as shown by instantaneous photography - with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera - in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal (14578808997)

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Title: The horse in motion : as shown by instantaneous photography : with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera : in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion

Year: 1882 (1880s)

Authors: Stillman, J. D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819-1888 Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904

Subjects: Horses Horses Animal locomotion

Publisher: Boston : J.R. Osgood

Contributing Library: Boston Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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considering the action of the posterior extremity.The construction of the joints at large would serve as a subject for amonograph of great interest; but to be fully understood it must bestudied cnsis in mami. A detailed description of the bones will not be attempted. Theyare proverbially a dry subject; but for the convenience of thosewho require it, a reference plate is presented, lithographed from aphotograph; and it is hoped that it will, through the eye, give thenecessary information to enable the reader to understand the mechan-ical movements without the study which abstract description wouldrequire. But the vertebra, or spinal column, as the keel or bed-plateconnecting the various parts of the machinery, requires furtherattention. The term spinal column, as applied to the skeleton of quadrupeds,is a misnomer, derived, like most anatomical names in comparativeanatomy, from its analogue in man. The spine being horizontalin quadrupeds, and not vertical, as in man, the term column OS

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