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Muybridge, Eadweard

(Encyclopedia) Muybridge, EadweardMuybridge, Eadweardĕdˈwərd mīˈbrĭj [key], 1830–1904, English-born photographer and student of animal locomotion. Muybridge changed his name from Edward James…

Eadweard Muybridge

Name at birth: Edward MuggeridgePhotographer Eadweard Muybridge's series of frame-by-frame photos titled The Horse in Motion (1882) is considered to be a major influence on the development of motion…

Rebecca Solnit

Journalist Rebecca Solnit began her writing career in the late 1980s, but it was her 2014 essay collection, Men Explain Things to Me, that gained her an audience beyond alert readers of periodicals…

Top 50 All-Time Box Office Hits

Top of Page Source: Getty ImagesMovies have come a long way since they were first invented in 1878 by Eadward Muybridge. Back then, his two-second long film, which featured consecutive shots sewn…

Notable Scientists: Life Sciences

  Biologists, botanists, geneticists, medical scientists, microbiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and zoologists       Related Links Cloning: Facts and Fallacies…

Notable Artists

Painters, sculptors, and photographers Read the brief and informative biographies of notable artists, from Pablo Picasso and Mary Cassatt to Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe…