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The first published account of the simple camera obscura was discovered by Libri in a translation of the Architecture of v. 4 a Vitruvius, with commentary by Cesare Caesariano, one of the architects of Milan cathedral, published at Como in 1521, shortly after the death of Leonardo, and some twenty years before Porta...
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1911encyclopedia.org/Camera_Obscura
1911encyclopedia.org/Camera_Obscura
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The term camera comes from the Latin "camera obscura" which means dark chamber and was a small box with a mirror inside that would project an image onto a piece of glass. The first camera obscura was probably built by a man called...
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The camera obscura was one of the first ways in which people were able to manipulate and project light onto a desired surface. It was accidentally discovered hundreds of years ago as a natural phenomenon that occured in the tents of Arabian nomads.
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www.friendsofphotography.org/hoh/co.html
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The first casual reference [to the Camera Obscura] is by Aristotle (Problems, ca 330 BC), who questions how the sun can make a circular image when it shines through a square hole. Euclid's Optics (ca 300 BC), presupposes the camera obscura as a demonstration that light travels in straight lines.
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www.acmi.net.au/AIC/CAMERA_OBSCURA.html
www.acmi.net.au/AIC/CAMERA_OBSCURA.html
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Camera Obscura has been crafting its own brand of shimmering chamber-pop since first forming in Glasgow in 1996. Now, more than a decade later, the group is about to release its richest and most ambitious album to date. ... Like much of Camera Obscura's previous work, My Maudlin Career ... More from Exclusive First Listen...
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he principle of what came to be called, around the year 1600, the camera obscura, was known in the fifth century before the Christian Era, when a Chinese philosopher discovered that light passing through a pinhole produces an inverted image on the opposite wall of a darkened room.
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www.lewis-clark.org/content/te_camob.htm
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In the second half of the XV century, Leonardo da Vinci discovered the same principle which he records in his Codex Atlanticus. ... It was Giovanni Battista Della Porta who, years later, made the first camera obscura to have lenses and which sure enough by then had the function that Da Vinci had predicted. Della Porta says...
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www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/jurado/libro/p...
www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/jurado/libro/pag8.html
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*Update July 10, 2007 Since our visit in 2000 Discovery Park has become a campus of Eastern Arizona College. The camera obscura is still operated. Check out their "Open to the Public" web page for hours ... In July, 2000 we paid our first visit to Arizona for the annual meeting of the National Stereoscopic Association.
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brightbytes.com/cosite/discovery.html
brightbytes.com/cosite/discovery.html
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1664 - 1666 - Isaac Newton discovered that white light is composed of different ... The first type of camera/imaging device is called the camera obscura. ...
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wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_camera_invented
wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_camera_invented
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