...accurately copy nature exactly as it was. The camera obscura was at first big enough for one to enter but over time became portable and by the nineteenth century, camera obscuras were greatly improved. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a scientist who was already interested in the art of lithography but unable to draw well invented a method of “[placing] engravings made transparent, on plates coated with various light-sensitive varnishes of his own composition and exposed them to sunlight”(Gernsheim, 1955, p.40). This process, which led to what he later called heliography, meaning sun drawing was not too successful in permanently fixing pictures but Niépce only progressed in finding a way to permanently fix images than copy from nature. Niépce, whose attempts to create a fixed image using a camera started in April 1816 was only able to create the first permanent photograph ten years later. Niépce’s photographic process, still called heliography, he defines as “the automatic reproduction, by the action of light, with their gradations of tones from black to white, of the images obtained in the camera obscura” (Clarke, 1997, p.13). The first photograph titled “View from the window at Le Gras” was made using pewter plates coated with bitumen of Judea, exposed for about eight hours in the camera obscura. According to Helmut Gernsheim, “The latent image was rendered visible by washing the plate with a mixture of lavender and white petroleum, which dissolved away the parts of the bitumen which had...
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...CHAPTER ONE CAMERA OBSCURA A camera obscura was one of the most important devices ever created in the world of photography. It is an optical device that led to the camera. A camera obscura consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where it is reproduced, rotated 180 degrees upside-down, but with color and perspective contained. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. Did you know he largest camera obscura in the world is on Constitution Hill in Aberystwyth, Wales? The first surviving mention of some of the principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura belongs to Mozi who lived 470 to 390 BCE. Mozi was a Chinese philosopher and the founder of Mohism. He correctly asserted that the image in a camera obscura is flipped upside down because light travels in straight lines from its source. His disciples developed this into a minor theory of optics. The Greek philosopher Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 BCE, understood the optical principle of the pinhole camera. Aristotle viewed the crescent shape of a partially eclipsed sun projected on the ground through the holes in a sieve and through the gaps between the leaves of a plane tree. In the 4th century, Greek scholar Theon of Alexandria observed that "candlelight passing through a pinhole will create an illuminated spot on a screen that is directly in line...
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...A microscope (from the Ancient Greek "small" "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is calledmicroscopy. Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope. There are many types of microscopes. The most common (and the first to be invented) is the optical microscope, which uses light to image the sample. Other major types of microscopes are theelectron microscope (both the transmission electron microscopeand the scanning electron microscope), the ultramicroscope, and the various types of scanning probe microscope. The first microscope to be developed was the optical microscope, although the original inventor is not easy to identify. Evidence points to the first compound microscope appearing in the Netherlands in the late 1500s, probably an invention of eyeglassmakers there:[1] Hans Lippershey (who developed an early telescope) and Zacharias Janssen (also claimed as the inventor of the telescope). There are other claims that the microscope and the telescope were invented by Roger Bacon in the 1200s,[2] but this is not substantiated. Giovanni Faber coined the name microscope forGalileo Galilei's compound microscope in 1625 [3] (Galileo had called it the "occhiolino" or "little eye"). 2nd Century BC - Claudius Ptolemy described a stick appearing to bend in a pool of water, and accurately recorded the angles to within half a degree. ...
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