Jules marey biography
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French physiologist and chronophotographer
Born at Beaune, France in 1830, Marey went to Paris in 1849 to enrol at the faculty of medicine and to study surgery and physiology. He qualified as a doctor in 1859, and set up in 1864 in a small Parisien laboratory at 14 rue dem l'Ancienne Comedie, where he studied the circulation of the blood, publishing Le Mouvement dans les fonctions de la vie in 1868. From 1863, Marey perfected the first elements of his 'methode graphique', which studied movement using recording instruments and graphs. Using polygraphs, sphygmographs, dromographs and other myographs, he succeeded in analysing diagramatically the walk of man and of horse, the flight of birds and insects. The results - published in La Machine Animale in 1873 - aroused much interest and led Leland Stanford and Eadweard Muybridge to pursue their own photographic researches into horse movement. In turn, the influence of Muybridge and of those in Marey's circle, including Alphonse P
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Étienne-Jules Marey
Marey in 1900. | |
| Born | March 5, 1830(1830-03-05) Beaune, Côte-d'Or |
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| Died | May 21, 1904(1904-05-21) (aged 74) Paris |
Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 – 1904) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. His work was significant in the development of medicine, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.
Literature[edit]
- Braun Marta, Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), University of Chicago Press, 1992.
- François Dagognet, Etienne-Jules Marey: A Passion for the Trace, Zone Books, 1992.
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Étienne-Jules Marey
French scientist and chronophotographer
Étienne-Jules Marey (French:[etjɛnʒylmaʁɛ]; 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904,[1] Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.
His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of laboratory photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema. He was also a pioneer in establishing a variety of graphical techniques for the display and interpretation of quantitative data from physiological measurement.[2]
Biography
[edit]Marey started by studying blood circulation in the human body. Then he shifted to analyzing heart beats, respiration, muscles (myography), and movement of the body. To aid his studies he developed many instruments for precise measurements. For example, in 1859, in collaboration with the p