MAREY, E. J.
Etienne Jules Marey, physician and physiologist, first began his fascination with movement through his discoveries in circulation and blood pressure. This early work inspired him to explore the movement of the body itself, comprised of linked parts that are subject to universal physical laws. He nurtured the art of capturing cycles of movement through time in a single frame, such as seen on page 58. The book covers such topics as chronophotography, kinetics, dynamics, locomotion in humans from an artistic point of view, locomotion of quadrupeds, the flight of birds and insects, and microscopic chronophotography. The International Scientific Series covered dozens of topics from "Darwinism" to "comparative literature".
