The most I got out of "“Grace Taking Form: Marey’s Movement Machines" was a story about the compulsive obsessions of one man to find answers about physical life and motion. What strikes me as most fascinating about Marey is the amount of time and resources he must have used in order to build his machines, maintain them, and have the time to conduct every one of his experiments to such detail.
While I can acknowledge the importance of such study, I can't help but wonder how much time and energy Marey put into performing these studies, and how much they impacted his own life. How was he able to continue obtaining the materials he used to test and to build and design? Was it worth it to him in the end, with such a need to know and learn more and more? Perhaps we'll never really know.
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