Eadweard Muybridge and the integrity in science
― Today Google's doodle is about Eadweard Muybridge's 1892 experiment for the former governor of California Leland Stanford a businessman and race-horse owner. ∙ Muybridge, an English photographer who lived in America, received $25,000 to perform an experiment to prove that a horse has all his hoovers off the floor for a very brief moment when trotting. ∙ It was a subject of controversy in horse-racing circles. ∙ It was necessary to capture the images slowly because human [...].
