William George Horner (1786 – 22 September 1837) was a British mathematician; he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper, proficient in classics as well as mathematics, who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics.(Reference)
what is he known for in animation?
he is known for making the Zoetrope, it is a device which has still images inside of it, inside a cylinder shaped piece of wood or something, and it has images going around inside of it, each of them has a movement that joins to the one before it, like it is actually moving.
how it works is, you spin it around but you make slits around it and you look inside of them,and when it spins it looks like it is moving. For example the video which is under this writing, shows a Zoetrope and how it works, in this one a bird is used for it, but you can use other things such as a bouncing ball or someone running, you can be very creative if you ever make one of these
where did it originate and when?
the idea originally originated from a chinese guy named Ding Huan, around 100 BC, not sure how his look version of it looks, because of the time it was created, but it was kind of like the zoetrope, In 1833 or 1834, british inventor William George Horner, came up with the idea of how it was going to be shaped, he improved it.
But then again someone came along and improved it, it was not called the zoetrope back then, it was called daedaleum, but then another varient of it came about, this was had slits above the images so you can change the images inside it, this was patented by english and american inventors, including Milton Bradley. The American Inventor, William F Lincoln invented his version and he named it Zoetrope, meaning "the meaning of life"
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