rudygodinez:

E. J. Marey, Two Chronograms,  (1890)

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1)  Running Long Jump

2)  Standing Long Jump

“An individual is a four dimensional object of greatly elongated form; in ordinary language we say that he has considerable extension in time an d insignificant extension in space.”

This definition can be applied to the physiologist Marcey’s famous chronograms which constitute in one single plate, “that can extend itself indefinitely.”