phantasmascopen.
/fanˈtazməskəʊp/, U.S. /fænˈtæzməˌskoʊp/ Now historical.
= phenakistoscope n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > optical and scientific toys > [noun]
multiplying-glass1639
Cartesian devil1731
kaleidoscope1817
myriorama1823
thaumatrope1827
bottle imp1833
phantasmascope1833
phenakistoscope1834
stroboscope1836
anorthoscope1842
tantalus-cup1842
phantascope1851
phantoscope1861
Pharaoh's serpent1863
phosphoroscope1866
zoetrope1866
wheel of life1872
praxinoscope1878
zoopraxiscope1881
phantoscope1894
Newton's cradle1971
1833 J. Romilly Diary 17 Sept. in Cambridge Diary (1967) i. 38 G.P. exhibited to us the Phantasmascope: the dancing men vastly comical.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. App. 350 They appear as if..a hundred [legs] were revolving and so form a kind of natural Phantasmascope.
1844 D. Olmsted Rudim. 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.
1870 Spiers & Surrene's French & Eng. pronouncing Dict. 268/3 Fantasmatoscope..Phantasmascope.
1984 Times 25 Feb. 20 (caption) From the left:..a ‘phantasmascope’ which can be spun to show a man eating a cow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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