How long does it take to read Animal Locomotion?
Eadweard Muybridge, University of Pennsylvania
Animal Locomotion by Eadweard Muybridge, University of Pennsylvania takes about 1 hour 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 21 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1887. 74 pages, about 20,350 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The largest collection of animal action photos in print. 34 different animals (horses, mules, oxen, goats, camels, pigs, cats, lions, gnus, deer, monkeys, eagles—and 22 others) In 132 characteristic actions. All 3919 photographs are taken in series at speeds up to 1/1600th of a second, offering artists, biologists, cartoonists a remarkable opportunity to see exactly how an ostrich's head bobs when running, how a lion puts his foot down, how an elephant's knee bends, how a bird flaps his wings, thousands of other hard-to-catch details. "A really marvelous series of plates," NATURE. 380 full-pages of plates. Heavy glossy stock, reinforced binding with headbands.
Subjects: Animal locomotion, Exhibitions, Pictorial works, Human locomotion, Chronophotography, Locomotion
