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    John Ayrton Paris, FRS (7 August 1785 – 24 December 1856) was a British physician. He is a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, which he published with...
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    invention of the thaumatrope is usually credited to British physician John Ayrton Paris. He described the device in his 1827 educational book for children...
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  • Michael Ayrton (20 February 1921 – 16 November 1975) was a British painter, printmaker, sculptor, critic, broadcaster and novelist. His sculptures, illustrations...
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    Ayrton Senna da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [aˈiʁtõ ˈsẽnɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] ; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver, who competed in Formula...
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  • ISBN 978-0-87131-789-6. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence, by Dr John Ayrton Paris M.D. and John Samuel Martin Fonblanque Barrister at Law, 3 Vols, London,...
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  • On 1 May 1994, Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna was killed after his car crashed into a concrete barrier while he was leading the 1994 San Marino...
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    been used in medicine, and is identified in the Pharmacologia of John Ayrton Paris as the healing rust of the Spear of Telephus mentioned by Homer. Verdigris...
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  • 1993), Australian cricket John Paris, Jr. (b. 1946), Canadian hockey coach John Ayrton Paris (1785–1856), physician Kelly Paris (1957–2019), American basketball...
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    Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette....
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    William Gregor (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    in 1814. His friends and correspondents included John Hawkins, Philip Rashleigh and John Ayrton Paris. Never letting his scientific work interfere with...
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  • later they heard about the supposed invention of the thaumatrope by John Ayrton Paris. 1865 – Edmund Johann Krüss, representing the optical equipment company...
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  • are considered a precursor to silhouette animation. December 24: John Ayrton Paris, British physician, (one of the claimed co-inventors of the animation...
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  • Constitutional History of England William Macmichael – The Gold-Headed Cane John Ayrton Paris – Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to...
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    invented the thaumatrope, which was later commercially publicised by Dr. John Ayrton Paris (to whom the invention is more usually attributed). He died in London...
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    like death, metaphysics, geology, natural theology and chemistry. John Ayrton Paris remarked that poems written by the young Davy "bear the stamp of lofty...
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  • thaumatrope was published by W. Phillips (in anonymous association with John Ayrton Paris) and became a popular toy. The pictures on either side of a small...
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    theme in Augustan age and later Roman poetry. The Pharmacologia of John Ayrton Paris identifies verdigris, which has medicinal properties, as the healing...
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    Thaumatrope was published by W. Phillips (in anonymous association with John Ayrton Paris). The fact that the pictures on either side of the twirling disc seem...
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  • had heard that John Ayrton Paris had once been present when John Herschel demonstrated his rotating coin trick to his children. Paris reportedly got the...
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    Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1. John Ayrton Paris (June 2, 2011). The Life of Sir Humphry Davy. Cambridge University...
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  • John Ayrton Paris, 1823 Observations on a bill now before Parliament, 1824 Contributions to the quarterly journal The Jurist 1826- "Fonblanque, John Samuel...
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  • contextualize them. One of John's early essays explored the invention of John Ayrton Paris’ Thaumatrope (the name roughly translates into Wonder-Turner from...
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    Charlotte Ayrton (née Chaplin; 22 June 1846 – 19 July 1883) was an English physician. She studied medicine in London, Edinburgh and Paris, pursuing higher...
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  • later they heard about the supposed invention of the thaumatrope by John Ayrton Paris. In 1864, the Dundee-based mechanic James Laing presented his motororoscope...
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  • President of the society was Davies Gilbert, the first Secretary John Ayrton Paris, and other notable members include Humphry Davy (some of whose papers...
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  • Pierre Seguin? 1825 Thaumatrope William Henry Fitton? introduced by John Ayrton Paris 1827 Kaleidophone Charles Wheatstone 1829 Anorthoscope Joseph Plateau...
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  • 1811–1812 Sir Francis Milman, Bt. 1813–1819 John Latham 1820–1843 Sir Henry Halford, Bt. 1844–1856 John Ayrton Paris 1857–1861 Thomas Mayo 1862–1866 Sir Thomas...
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  • Ayrton Senna EP is the self-produced second extended play by Spanish alternative dance band Delorean, released in 2009 by Mushroom Pillow. Fool House distributed...
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  • eight months studying in France, frequently accompanied by Ayrton, and returned from Paris when the Second World War began. In October 1939 Minton registered...
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  • in the Imperial Magazine in 1820. Humphry Davy's first biographer, John Ayrton Paris, was an unreliable witness, according to June Z. Fullmer. She contests...
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