Joseph Plateau
Joseph was the first person to demonstrate the illusion as a moving image, how he was able to do so he would user counter rotating disks with small increments of motion on one and on the other he would place slits into it. He called his work phenakistoscope.
He also performed an experiment on which he stood an gazed into the sun for 25 seconds and repeater that sequence and later on in life lost his eye sight, he was fascinated by lumionous impressions.
William Horner
William was a Brittish Mathsmatician and a school master. He invented Zoetrope.
Horner published a mode of solving numerical equations of any degree, now known as Horner's method. According to Augustus De Morgan, he first made it known in a paper read before the Royal Society, 1 July 1819, by Davies Gilbert, headed A New Method of Solving Numerical Equations of all Orders by Continuous Approximation.
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