phantasmascope
(fænˈtæzməskəʊp)
[irreg. f. phantasma + -scope.]
= phenakistoscope.
| 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. App. 350 They appear as if..a hundred [legs] were revolving and so form a kind of natural Phantasmascope. 1844 Olmsted Rud Nat. Philos. viii. 558 The Phantasmascope consists of disks bearing on their margin a variety of figures, which are so related to each other, that each..figure shall afford a continuation of the preceding. c 1865 J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 77/2. |