Joseph Plateau

Joseph Plateau
Plateau in 1843
Born(1801-10-14)14 October 1801[1]
Died15 September 1883(1883-09-15) (aged 81)
NationalityBelgian
Alma materUniversity of Liège
Known forPhysics of soap bubbles (Plateau's laws), Plateau's problem
Scientific career
InstitutionsGhent University
Doctoral advisorAdolphe Quetelet

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ɑ̃twan fɛʁdinɑ̃ plato]; 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.[3] 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. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ (Van der Mensbrugghe 1885, p. 389): in this reference, written by his son in Law, Ghent is written Gand, which is its French name.
  3. ^ "Goethe's Theory of Colours". theoryofcolor.org. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2016. Note to Paragraph 23

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