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Dawn of the Flick: The Doctors, Physicists, and Mathematicians Who Made the Movies

Early optical toys from the 19th century are expressions of our almost primal urge to animate the inanimate. Or so believes Richard Balzer, one of the foremost collectors of optical toys, magic lanterns, camera obscuras, and other objects that play tricks on the eye…

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