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Biography of Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist who made significant contributions to the field of optics. He is best known for inventing the stroboscope and the phenakistiscope, two devices that revolutionized the way we perceive motion and visual illusions. Early Life and Career Plateau was born on October 14, 1801, in Brussels, Belgium. From a young age, he showed a strong interest in science and pursued his studies at the University ... " Plateau , Joseph Antoine Ferdinand ," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) " Joseph - Antoine Plateau ," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913) Joseph Plateau was a Belgian mathematician who studied the properties of light, colour and minimal surfaces. He invented the phenakistiscope, a device for viewing moving pictures, and became blind in 1843. In 1832 Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau ( Joseph Plateau ) of Brussels became first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. Plateau 's device, which he called the phenakistoscop e ("spindle viewer"), used the persistence of motion principle to create an illusion of motion.
