Plate Number 277. Baseball, batting 1887

This photographic sequence, "Plate Number 277. Baseball, batting," from 1887, is a seminal example of Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking work in motion studies. It captures a man, nude, in the act of swinging a baseball bat, breaking down the motion into 12 individual frames. Muybridge's innovative use of multiple cameras to record sequential moments in time revolutionized our understanding of movement, paving the way for the development of cinema and animation. This series, part of his larger "Animal Locomotion" project, exemplifies Muybridge's scientific approach to capturing the intricacies of human movement.