Paintings of horses running before this were usually wrong, because they moved too fast to observe for reference.
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The Public Domain Review
#OnThisDay in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took this series of images of a racehorse in motion. A former governor of California reportedly had bet on whether all the hooves were airborne at once, and hired Muybridge to settle the debate: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD
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