Joseph Plateau

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other.

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Who was born first?

• Joseph Plateau and Joseph Ludwig Raabe were born the same year
• Joseph Plateau and George Biddell Airy were born the same year
• Joseph Plateau and Antoine Augustin Cournot were born the same year
• Joseph Plateau and Mikhail Ostrogradsky were born the same year
• Joseph Plateau and Julius Plücker were born the same year

Timeline

1. Antoine Augustin CournotAugust 28, 1801 – March 31, 1877
2. George Biddell AiryJuly 27, 1801 – January 2, 1892
3. Joseph Ludwig RaabeMay 15, 1801 – January 12, 1859
4. Joseph Plateau (this page)October 14, 1801 – September 15, 1883
5. Julius PlückerJuly 16, 1801 – May 22, 1868
6. Mikhail OstrogradskySeptember 12, 1801 – December 20, 1861

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