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August 17th 2010 11:21
Original Creative Writing:
David Jobling
A Persian scientist born in 965 AD named Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham, built a camera which was used to capture pictures in outer space.
That camera is known as the Camera Obscura; during the last century scientists discovered that the Camera Obscura could be used to photograph X-ray radiation and gamma rays, which the ordinary lens absorbs.
These images are some of the first photographs captured a couple of hundred years ago and consider for a moment, these are not exactly the originals.
These are scans of the originals transferred over the internet via electricity, stored on a computer and made available globally; their journey has been a long one and it is amazing to consider how quickly we have gone from figuring out how to capture these images into being able to project them on a screen.
Certainly we have seen multi million dollar industries emerge as a result of these pictures. The Photographic Industry, the Film Industry, the Publishing Industry to name a few of so many.
Back to the development of photography; prehistoric people literally drew on all sorts of things in the same way Graffiti Artists do today, they were very creatively expressive and curiously inventive. Questions and ideas about optics and geometry began emerging as early as 350 BC. The earliest recorded mentions of discovery of the principles behind the Camera Obscura or Pinhole Camera, belong to Mo Tzu (470 BC - 390 BCE), a Chinese philosopher, quite separately, Greek philosopher, scientist, and physician Aristotle (384-322 BCE), makes casual reference to the Camera Obscura as he questions how the sun can make a circular image when it shines through a square hole.
In his treatise on optics Persian Scientist Ibn al-Haitham (965-1039 AD), which was translated into Latin in 1270 as Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni libri vii, al-Haitham published theories on refraction, reflection, binocular vision, focusing with lenses, the rainbow, parabolic and spherical mirrors, spherical aberration, atmospheric refraction, and the apparent increase in size of planetary bodies near the Earth's horizon.
al-Haitham was first to give an accurate account of vision, correctly stating that light comes from the object seen to the eye. Euclid, aka Euclid of Alexandria (325 BC - 265 BC) wrote the earliest surviving work on geometrical optics (called Optics). There were a number of Medieval Latin translations of this work which became of new importance in the fifteenth century for the theory of linear perspective.
That camera is known as the Camera Obscura; during the last century scientists discovered that the Camera Obscura could be used to photograph X-ray radiation and gamma rays, which the ordinary lens absorbs.
These images are some of the first photographs captured a couple of hundred years ago and consider for a moment, these are not exactly the originals.
These are scans of the originals transferred over the internet via electricity, stored on a computer and made available globally; their journey has been a long one and it is amazing to consider how quickly we have gone from figuring out how to capture these images into being able to project them on a screen.
Certainly we have seen multi million dollar industries emerge as a result of these pictures. The Photographic Industry, the Film Industry, the Publishing Industry to name a few of so many.
Back to the development of photography; prehistoric people literally drew on all sorts of things in the same way Graffiti Artists do today, they were very creatively expressive and curiously inventive. Questions and ideas about optics and geometry began emerging as early as 350 BC. The earliest recorded mentions of discovery of the principles behind the Camera Obscura or Pinhole Camera, belong to Mo Tzu (470 BC - 390 BCE), a Chinese philosopher, quite separately, Greek philosopher, scientist, and physician Aristotle (384-322 BCE), makes casual reference to the Camera Obscura as he questions how the sun can make a circular image when it shines through a square hole.
Reflective symmetry has been observed since ancient times. Legend claims that early Egyptians would place two or three slabs of highly polished limestone together at different angles and watch with fascination as mandalas were formed by human dancers. It was not until centuries later, however, that this optical phenomenon was encased in one small tube and given a name.
Kaleidoscopes - Wonders of Wonder by Cozy Baker
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Kaleidoscopes - Wonders of Wonder by Cozy Baker
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In his treatise on optics Persian Scientist Ibn al-Haitham (965-1039 AD), which was translated into Latin in 1270 as Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni libri vii, al-Haitham published theories on refraction, reflection, binocular vision, focusing with lenses, the rainbow, parabolic and spherical mirrors, spherical aberration, atmospheric refraction, and the apparent increase in size of planetary bodies near the Earth's horizon.
al-Haitham was first to give an accurate account of vision, correctly stating that light comes from the object seen to the eye. Euclid, aka Euclid of Alexandria (325 BC - 265 BC) wrote the earliest surviving work on geometrical optics (called Optics). There were a number of Medieval Latin translations of this work which became of new importance in the fifteenth century for the theory of linear perspective.
The first Camera Obscura was built by Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham, who gave the first correct explanation of vision, showing that light is reflected from an object into the eye. He studied the complete science of vision, called perspectiva in medieval times, and although he did not apply his ideas to painting, the Renaissance artists later made important use of Al-Haytham's optics.
Mathematics and art - perspective
J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Mathematics and art - perspective
J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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