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English: Optical illusion disc which is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a man bowing and a woman curtsying to each other in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Part of McLean’s Optical Illusions or Magic Panorama, a boxed set of 12 discs. Hand-colored lithograph.
Polski: Ręcznie kolorowany dysk z 1833 roku pod tytułem Politeness (pol. Uprzejmość) przeznaczony do oglądania w fenakistiskopie.
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Media of the day This file was selected as the media of the day for 06 May 2019. It was captioned as follows:
English: Politeness is a hand-colored optical illusion disc to be used in a phenakistoscope (1833).
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English: Politeness is a hand-colored optical illusion disc to be used in a phenakistoscope (1833).
Polski: Ręcznie kolorowany dysk z 1833 roku pod tytułem Politeness (pol. Uprzejmość) przeznaczony do oglądania w fenakistiskopie.

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