Faster access than browser!
184 relations: A Matter of Life and Death (film), Addicted to Love (film), Al-Kindi, American Philosophical Society, Anamorphosis, Ancient Greece, Andrei Rublev (film), Andrei Tarkovsky, Aniconism in Islam, Anthemius of Tralles, Arabs, Aristotle, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Astronomy Centre, Athanasius Kircher, BBC Books, Benedetto Castelli, Bonnington Pavilion, Book of Optics, Buzza Tower, Byzantine Empire, Camera, Camera lucida, Camera Obscura (album), Camera Obscura (band), Camera Obscura (duo), Camera Obscura (Edinburgh), Camera Obscura (San Francisco, California), Cave painting, Chinese pagoda, Christoph Scheiner, Claude glass, Cliff House, San Francisco, Clifton Observatory, Codex Atlanticus, Colin Firth, Constantijn Huygens, Cornelis Drebbel, Cuba, Daniel Schwenter, Daniele Barbaro, David Fabricius, Diffraction, Doctor Who, Don Ihde, Donald Hill, Dream Pool Essays, Duan Chengshi, Dumfries Museum, Dutch Golden Age painting, ..., Edinburgh University Press, Enigma (musical project), Euclid, Euclid's Optics, F-number, Fatal Frame, Foredown Tower, François d'Aguilon, Francesco Algarotti, Francesco Maurolico, Friedrich Risner, Galileo Galilei, Gaspar Schott, Gemma Frisius, Gerolamo Cardano, Gersonides, Giambattista Benedetti, Giambattista della Porta, Girl with a Pearl Earring (film), Gnomon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Union Camera Obscura, Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, Griffith Observatory, Hagia Sophia, Hans Belting, Havana, Helioscope, Henry Fox Talbot, History of film, History of science and technology in China, Hockney–Falco thesis, Hugh Town, Human eye, Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Yunus, Ignazio Danti, Isles of Scilly, Jacob's staff, Jean François Niceron, Johann Sturm, Johann Zahn, Johannes Fabricius, Johannes Kepler, Johannes Vermeer, John Locke, John Peckham, Joseph Needham, Joshua Reynolds, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Latin, Laughter in the Dark (novel), Lavie Tidhar, Lens (anatomy), Lens (optics), Leonardo da Vinci, Lisbon, Lloyd Rose, London, Los Angeles, Louis Daguerre, Magia Naturalis, Magic lantern, Mario Bettinus, Matthew Broderick, Middle Ages, Minim (religious order), Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, Mohism, Mozi, Mozi (book), National Register of Historic Places, Necromancy, Nejc Gazvoda, Neolithic, Nicéphore Niépce, Nico, Nicolaas Beets, Old Havana, Optics, Opus Majus, Oriental studies, Pacific Ocean, Paleolithic, Palisades Park (Santa Monica), Pappenheim, Paul Sandby, Peconic Bay, Pepper's ghost, Perspective (graphical), Philadelphia, Physicist, Pinhole camera, Plaza Vieja, Havana, Pope Gregory XIII, Portslade, Problems (Aristotle), Pupil, René Descartes, Retina, Robert Boyle, Robert Grosseteste, Robert Hooke, Roger Bacon, Roger Livesey, San Francisco, Santa Monica Camera Obscura, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica State Beach, Santa Monica, California, São Jorge Castle, Scarlett Johansson, Scholasticism, Science Museum, London, Scioptic ball, Shelter Island, New York, Shen Kuo, Song dynasty, South Downs, Sunspot, Sutro District, Sutro Heights Park, Telescope, The Photographers' Gallery, The Screen Behind the Mirror, Theon of Alexandria, Tracing paper, United States, Universal joint, University of Chicago Press, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vitello, Vladimir Nabokov, Zhoubi Suanjing. Expand index (134 more) »
A Matter of Life and Death (film)
A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War.
New!!: Camera obscura and A Matter of Life and Death (film) · See more »
Addicted to Love (film)
Addicted to Love is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne, starring Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Tchéky Karyo, and Kelly Preston.
New!!: Camera obscura and Addicted to Love (film) · See more »
Al-Kindi
Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician.
New!!: Camera obscura and Al-Kindi · See more »
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
New!!: Camera obscura and American Philosophical Society · See more »
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point (or both) to reconstitute the image.
New!!: Camera obscura and Anamorphosis · See more »
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
New!!: Camera obscura and Ancient Greece · See more »
Andrei Rublev (film)
Andrei Rublev (Russian: Андрей Рублёв) is a 1966 Soviet biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-written with Andrei Konchalovsky.
New!!: Camera obscura and Andrei Rublev (film) · See more »
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director.
New!!: Camera obscura and Andrei Tarkovsky · See more »
Aniconism in Islam
Aniconism is a proscription in Islam against the creation of images of sentient beings.
New!!: Camera obscura and Aniconism in Islam · See more »
Anthemius of Tralles
Anthemius of Tralles (Ἀνθέμιος ὁ Τραλλιανός, Medieval Greek:, Anthémios o Trallianós; – 533 558) was a Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
New!!: Camera obscura and Anthemius of Tralles · See more »
Arabs
Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.
New!!: Camera obscura and Arabs · See more »
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
New!!: Camera obscura and Aristotle · See more »
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
Arnaldus de Villa Nova (also called Arnau de Vilanova in Valencian, his language, Arnaldus Villanovanus, Arnaud de Ville-Neuve or Arnaldo de Villanueva, c. 1240–1311) was a physician and a religious reformer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Arnaldus de Villa Nova · See more »
Astronomy Centre
The Astronomy Centre, also known as the Amateur Astronomy Centre, is an astronomical observatory located in northern England which is run by experienced amateur astronomers and is open to the public at certain times.
New!!: Camera obscura and Astronomy Centre · See more »
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner; Athanasius Kircherus, 2 May 1602 – 28 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
New!!: Camera obscura and Athanasius Kircher · See more »
BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division.
New!!: Camera obscura and BBC Books · See more »
Benedetto Castelli
Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician.
New!!: Camera obscura and Benedetto Castelli · See more »
Bonnington Pavilion
The Bonnington Pavilion or Hall of Mirrors, now a ruin, is situated in the grounds of the old estate of Bonnington, near New Lanark, overlooking Corra Linn falls on the River Clyde in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
New!!: Camera obscura and Bonnington Pavilion · See more »
Book of Optics
The Book of Optics (Kitāb al-Manāẓir; Latin: De Aspectibus or Perspectiva; Italian: Deli Aspecti) is a seven-volume treatise on optics and other fields of study composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965– c. 1040 AD).
New!!: Camera obscura and Book of Optics · See more »
Buzza Tower
Buzza Tower is a Grade II listed structure on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly now used as a camera obscura.
New!!: Camera obscura and Buzza Tower · See more »
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).
New!!: Camera obscura and Byzantine Empire · See more »
Camera
A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera · See more »
Camera lucida
A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera lucida · See more »
Camera Obscura (album)
Camera Obscura is the sixth and final solo studio album by German singer Nico, featuring the backing band the Faction.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera Obscura (album) · See more »
Camera Obscura (band)
Camera Obscura is a Scottish indie pop band from Glasgow.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera Obscura (band) · See more »
Camera Obscura (duo)
Camera Obscura was a new wave/synthpop band formed in 1982 in York, England, by Peter Oldroyd and Nigel James.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera Obscura (duo) · See more »
Camera Obscura (Edinburgh)
Camera Obscura and World of Illusions is a major tourist attraction in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera Obscura (Edinburgh) · See more »
Camera Obscura (San Francisco, California)
The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura, in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Camera Obscura (San Francisco, California) · See more »
Cave painting
Cave paintings, also known as parietal art, are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, beginning roughly 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.
New!!: Camera obscura and Cave painting · See more »
Chinese pagoda
Chinese pagodas are a traditional part of Chinese architecture.
New!!: Camera obscura and Chinese pagoda · See more »
Christoph Scheiner
Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
New!!: Camera obscura and Christoph Scheiner · See more »
Claude glass
A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour.
New!!: Camera obscura and Claude glass · See more »
Cliff House, San Francisco
The Cliff House is a restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Cliff House, San Francisco · See more »
Clifton Observatory
Clifton Observatory is a former mill, now used as an observatory, located on Clifton Down, close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England.
New!!: Camera obscura and Clifton Observatory · See more »
Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) is a twelve-volume, bound set of drawings and writings (in Italian) by Leonardo da Vinci, the largest such set; its name indicates the large paper used to preserve original da Vinci notebook pages, which was that used for atlases.
New!!: Camera obscura and Codex Atlanticus · See more »
Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth, (born 10 September 1960), is an English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.
New!!: Camera obscura and Colin Firth · See more »
Constantijn Huygens
Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem (4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Constantijn Huygens · See more »
Cornelis Drebbel
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor.
New!!: Camera obscura and Cornelis Drebbel · See more »
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
New!!: Camera obscura and Cuba · See more »
Daniel Schwenter
Daniel Schwenter (Schwender) (31 January 1585 – 19 January 1636) was a German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian.
New!!: Camera obscura and Daniel Schwenter · See more »
Daniele Barbaro
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro (also Barbarus) (8 February 1514 – 13 April 1570) was an Italian architect, writer on architecture, and translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius.
New!!: Camera obscura and Daniele Barbaro · See more »
David Fabricius
David Fabricius (9 March 1564 – 7 May 1617) was a German pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).
New!!: Camera obscura and David Fabricius · See more »
Diffraction
--> Diffraction refers to various phenomena that occur when a wave encounters an obstacle or a slit.
New!!: Camera obscura and Diffraction · See more »
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.
New!!: Camera obscura and Doctor Who · See more »
Don Ihde
Don Ihde (born 1934) is an American philosopher of science and technology, and a postphenomenologist.
New!!: Camera obscura and Don Ihde · See more »
Donald Hill
Donald Routledge Hill (August 6, 1922 – May 30, 1994)D.
New!!: Camera obscura and Donald Hill · See more »
Dream Pool Essays
The Dream Pool Essays or Dream Torrent Essays (Pinyin: Mèng Xī Bǐ Tán; Wade-Giles: Meng⁴ Hsi¹ Pi³-t'an²; Chinese: 夢溪筆談／梦溪笔谈) was an extensive book written by the Han Chinese polymath, genius, scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031-1095) by 1088 AD, during the Song dynasty (960-1279) of China.
New!!: Camera obscura and Dream Pool Essays · See more »
Duan Chengshi
Duan Chengshi (died 863) was a Chinese poet and writer of the Tang Dynasty.
New!!: Camera obscura and Duan Chengshi · See more »
Dumfries Museum
Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region.
New!!: Camera obscura and Dumfries Museum · See more »
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
New!!: Camera obscura and Dutch Golden Age painting · See more »
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
New!!: Camera obscura and Edinburgh University Press · See more »
Enigma (musical project)
Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu.
New!!: Camera obscura and Enigma (musical project) · See more »
Euclid
Euclid (Εὐκλείδης Eukleidēs; fl. 300 BC), sometimes given the name Euclid of Alexandria to distinguish him from Euclides of Megara, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry".
New!!: Camera obscura and Euclid · See more »
Euclid's Optics
Euclid's Optics (Ὀπτικά), is a work on the geometry of vision written by the Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BC.
New!!: Camera obscura and Euclid's Optics · See more »
F-number
The f-number of an optical system (such as a camera lens) is the ratio of the system's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil.
New!!: Camera obscura and F-number · See more »
Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame, titled in Japan and Project Zero in Europe, is a survival horror video game series created and primarily developed by Koei Tecmo (originally Tecmo), and currently co-owned by Koei Tecmo and Nintendo.
New!!: Camera obscura and Fatal Frame · See more »
Foredown Tower
Foredown Tower is a former water tower in Portslade, in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, that now contains one of only two operational camera obscuras in southeast England.
New!!: Camera obscura and Foredown Tower · See more »
François d'Aguilon
François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect.
New!!: Camera obscura and François d'Aguilon · See more »
Francesco Algarotti
Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.
New!!: Camera obscura and Francesco Algarotti · See more »
Francesco Maurolico
Francesco Maurolico (Greek: Φραγκίσκος Μαυρόλυκος, Frangiskos Mavrolikos; Latin: Franciscus Maurolycus; Francisci Maurolyci; Italian: Francesco Maurolico; 16 September 1494 - 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer from Sicily.
New!!: Camera obscura and Francesco Maurolico · See more »
Friedrich Risner
Friedrich Risner (c.1533 – 15 September 1580) (in Latin Fridericus Risnerus) was a German mathematician from Hersfeld, Hesse.
New!!: Camera obscura and Friedrich Risner · See more »
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564Drake (1978, p. 1). The date of Galileo's birth is given according to the Julian calendar, which was then in force throughout Christendom. In 1582 it was replaced in Italy and several other Catholic countries with the Gregorian calendar. Unless otherwise indicated, dates in this article are given according to the Gregorian calendar. – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath.
New!!: Camera obscura and Galileo Galilei · See more »
Gaspar Schott
Gaspar Schott (German: Kaspar (or Caspar) Schott; Latin: Gaspar Schottus; 5 February 1608 – 22 May 1666) was a German Jesuit and scientist, specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy, and known for his industry.
New!!: Camera obscura and Gaspar Schott · See more »
Gemma Frisius
Gemma Frisius (born Jemme Reinerszoon; December 9, 1508 – May 25, 1555), was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker.
New!!: Camera obscura and Gemma Frisius · See more »
Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (Jérôme Cardan; Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
New!!: Camera obscura and Gerolamo Cardano · See more »
Gersonides
Levi ben Gershon (1288–1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Gersonides · See more »
Giambattista Benedetti
Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (August 14, 1530 in Venice – January 20, 1590 in Turin) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music.
New!!: Camera obscura and Giambattista Benedetti · See more »
Giambattista della Porta
Giambattista della Porta (1535? – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation.
New!!: Camera obscura and Giambattista della Porta · See more »
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber.
New!!: Camera obscura and Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) · See more »
Gnomon
A gnomon (from Greek γνώμων, gnōmōn, literally: "one that knows or examines") is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.
New!!: Camera obscura and Gnomon · See more »
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is a U.S. National Recreation Area protecting of ecologically and historically significant landscapes surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area.
New!!: Camera obscura and Golden Gate National Recreation Area · See more »
Grand Union Camera Obscura
The Grand Union Camera Obscura is an unusual building which, via methods of light and mirrors, reflects images of the surrounding area onto large white screens within the dark confines of the building.
New!!: Camera obscura and Grand Union Camera Obscura · See more »
Greenport, Suffolk County, New York
Greenport is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States.
New!!: Camera obscura and Greenport, Suffolk County, New York · See more »
Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory is a facility in Los Angeles, California, sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles' Griffith Park.
New!!: Camera obscura and Griffith Observatory · See more »
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (from the Greek Αγία Σοφία,, "Holy Wisdom"; Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey.
New!!: Camera obscura and Hagia Sophia · See more »
Hans Belting
Hans Belting (born 7 July 1935 in Andernach) is a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as contemporary art and image theory.
New!!: Camera obscura and Hans Belting · See more »
Havana
Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.
New!!: Camera obscura and Havana · See more »
Helioscope
A helioscope is an instrument used in observing the sun and sunspots.
New!!: Camera obscura and Helioscope · See more »
Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (11 February 180017 September 1877) was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
New!!: Camera obscura and Henry Fox Talbot · See more »
History of film
Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.
New!!: Camera obscura and History of film · See more »
History of science and technology in China
Ancient Chinese scientists and engineers made significant scientific innovations, findings and technological advances across various scientific disciplines including the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, military technology, mathematics, geology and astronomy.
New!!: Camera obscura and History of science and technology in China · See more »
Hockney–Falco thesis
The Hockney–Falco thesis is a theory of art history, advanced by artist David Hockney and physicist Charles M. Falco.
New!!: Camera obscura and Hockney–Falco thesis · See more »
Hugh Town
Hugh Town (Tre Huw) is the largest settlement on the Isles of Scilly and its administrative centre.
New!!: Camera obscura and Hugh Town · See more »
Human eye
The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure.
New!!: Camera obscura and Human eye · See more »
Ibn al-Haytham
Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized Alhazen; full name أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age.
New!!: Camera obscura and Ibn al-Haytham · See more »
Ibn Yunus
Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi al-Misri (Arabic: ابن يونس; c. 950 – 1009) was an important Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, whose works are noted for being ahead of their time, having been based on meticulous calculations and attention to detail.
New!!: Camera obscura and Ibn Yunus · See more »
Ignazio Danti
Ignazio (Egnatio or Egnazio) Danti (April 1536 – 19 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Ignazio Danti · See more »
Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly (Syllan or Enesek Syllan) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall.
New!!: Camera obscura and Isles of Scilly · See more »
Jacob's staff
The term Jacob's staff, also known as cross-staff, a ballastella, a fore-staff, or a balestilha, is used to refer to several things.
New!!: Camera obscura and Jacob's staff · See more »
Jean François Niceron
Jean-François Nicéron (1613 – 22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives).
New!!: Camera obscura and Jean François Niceron · See more »
Johann Sturm
Johann Christoph Sturm (3 November 1635 – 26 December 1703) was a German philosopher.
New!!: Camera obscura and Johann Sturm · See more »
Johann Zahn
Johann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685).
New!!: Camera obscura and Johann Zahn · See more »
Johannes Fabricius
Johann Goldsmid, better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587 – 19 March 1616), eldest son of David Fabricius (1564–1617), was a Frisian/German astronomer and a discoverer of sunspots (in 1610), independently of Galileo Galilei.
New!!: Camera obscura and Johannes Fabricius · See more »
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Johannes Kepler · See more »
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.
New!!: Camera obscura and Johannes Vermeer · See more »
John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
New!!: Camera obscura and John Locke · See more »
John Peckham
John Peckham (c. 1230 – 8 December 1292) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279–1292.
New!!: Camera obscura and John Peckham · See more »
Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology.
New!!: Camera obscura and Joseph Needham · See more »
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.
New!!: Camera obscura and Joshua Reynolds · See more »
Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi or Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan (1267– 12 January 1319, long assumed to be 1320)) (كمالالدين فارسی) was a Persian Muslim scientist. He made two major contributions to science, one on optics, the other on number theory. Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. According to Encyclopædia Iranica, Kamal al-Din was the most prominent Persian author on optics.
New!!: Camera obscura and Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī · See more »
Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
New!!: Camera obscura and Latin · See more »
Laughter in the Dark (novel)
Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, Camera obscura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye Zapiski in 1932.
New!!: Camera obscura and Laughter in the Dark (novel) · See more »
Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar (לביא תדהר) (born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres.
New!!: Camera obscura and Lavie Tidhar · See more »
Lens (anatomy)
The lens is a transparent, biconvex structure in the eye that, along with the cornea, helps to refract light to be focused on the retina.
New!!: Camera obscura and Lens (anatomy) · See more »
Lens (optics)
A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction.
New!!: Camera obscura and Lens (optics) · See more »
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
New!!: Camera obscura and Leonardo da Vinci · See more »
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
New!!: Camera obscura and Lisbon · See more »
Lloyd Rose
Lloyd Rose is an American writer most associated with her work on various ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs.
New!!: Camera obscura and Lloyd Rose · See more »
London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
New!!: Camera obscura and London · See more »
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
New!!: Camera obscura and Los Angeles · See more »
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851), better known as Louis Daguerre, was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.
New!!: Camera obscura and Louis Daguerre · See more »
Magia Naturalis
Magia Naturalis (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558.
New!!: Camera obscura and Magia Naturalis · See more »
Magic lantern
The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, is an early type of image projector employing pictures painted, printed or produced photographically on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source.
New!!: Camera obscura and Magic lantern · See more »
Mario Bettinus
Mario Bettinus (Italian name: Mario Bettini; 6 February 1582 – 7 November 1657) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Mario Bettinus · See more »
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor, stage actor and singer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Matthew Broderick · See more »
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
New!!: Camera obscura and Middle Ages · See more »
Minim (religious order)
The Minims (also called the Minimi or Order of Minims, abbreviated O.M.) are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
New!!: Camera obscura and Minim (religious order) · See more »
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
The Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang is a miscellany of Chinese and foreign legends and hearsay, reports on natural phenomena, short anecdotes, and tales of the wondrous and mundane, as well as notes on such topics as medicinal herbs and tattoos.
New!!: Camera obscura and Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang · See more »
Mohism
Mohism or Moism was an ancient Chinese philosophy of logic, rational thought and science developed by the academic scholars who studied under the ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi (c. 470 BC – c. 391 BC) and embodied in an eponymous book: the Mozi.
New!!: Camera obscura and Mohism · See more »
Mozi
Mozi (Latinized as Micius; c. 470 – c. 391 BC), original name Mo Di (墨翟), was a Chinese philosopher during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring States period).
New!!: Camera obscura and Mozi · See more »
Mozi (book)
The Mozi is an ancient Chinese text from the Warring States period (476221) that expounds the philosophy of Mohism.
New!!: Camera obscura and Mozi (book) · See more »
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
New!!: Camera obscura and National Register of Historic Places · See more »
Necromancy
Necromancy is a practice of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the deceased as a weapon, as the term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft.
New!!: Camera obscura and Necromancy · See more »
Nejc Gazvoda
Nejc Gazvoda (born 5 June 1985) is a Slovene writer, screenwriter and director.
New!!: Camera obscura and Nejc Gazvoda · See more »
Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
New!!: Camera obscura and Neolithic · See more »
Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field.
New!!: Camera obscura and Nicéphore Niépce · See more »
Nico
Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, musician, model, and actress.
New!!: Camera obscura and Nico · See more »
Nicolaas Beets
Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 – 13 March 1903) was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet.
New!!: Camera obscura and Nicolaas Beets · See more »
Old Havana
Old Havana (La Habana Vieja) is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba.
New!!: Camera obscura and Old Havana · See more »
Optics
Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
New!!: Camera obscura and Optics · See more »
Opus Majus
The Opus Majus (Latin for "Greater Work") is the most important work of Roger Bacon.
New!!: Camera obscura and Opus Majus · See more »
Oriental studies
Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.
New!!: Camera obscura and Oriental studies · See more »
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pacific Ocean · See more »
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.
New!!: Camera obscura and Paleolithic · See more »
Palisades Park (Santa Monica)
Palisades Park is a 26.4-acre park in Santa Monica, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Palisades Park (Santa Monica) · See more »
Pappenheim
Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pappenheim · See more »
Paul Sandby
Paul Sandby (1731 – 9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
New!!: Camera obscura and Paul Sandby · See more »
Peconic Bay
The Peconic Bay is the parent name for two bays between the North Fork and South Fork of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
New!!: Camera obscura and Peconic Bay · See more »
Pepper's ghost
Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique used in the theatre, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pepper's ghost · See more »
Perspective (graphical)
Perspective (from perspicere "to see through") in the graphic arts is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye.
New!!: Camera obscura and Perspective (graphical) · See more »
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
New!!: Camera obscura and Philadelphia · See more »
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
New!!: Camera obscura and Physicist · See more »
Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pinhole camera · See more »
Plaza Vieja, Havana
The Old Square (Spanish: Plaza Vieja) is a plaza located in Old Havana, Cuba.
New!!: Camera obscura and Plaza Vieja, Havana · See more »
Pope Gregory XIII
Pope Gregory XIII (Gregorius XIII; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pope Gregory XIII · See more »
Portslade
Portslade is the name of an area of the city of Brighton and Hove, England.
New!!: Camera obscura and Portslade · See more »
Problems (Aristotle)
The Problems (Προβλήματα; Problemata) is an Aristotelian or possibly pseudo-Aristotelian, as its authenticity has been questioned, collection of problems written in a question and answer format.
New!!: Camera obscura and Problems (Aristotle) · See more »
Pupil
The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina.
New!!: Camera obscura and Pupil · See more »
René Descartes
René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
New!!: Camera obscura and René Descartes · See more »
Retina
The retina is the innermost, light-sensitive "coat", or layer, of shell tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.
New!!: Camera obscura and Retina · See more »
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor.
New!!: Camera obscura and Robert Boyle · See more »
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste (Robertus Grosseteste; – 9 October 1253) was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln.
New!!: Camera obscura and Robert Grosseteste · See more »
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS (– 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
New!!: Camera obscura and Robert Hooke · See more »
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Rogerus), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.
New!!: Camera obscura and Roger Bacon · See more »
Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor.
New!!: Camera obscura and Roger Livesey · See more »
San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
New!!: Camera obscura and San Francisco · See more »
Santa Monica Camera Obscura
The Santa Monica Camera Obscura is a publicly accessible historic camera obscura, located in Palisades Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in Santa Monica, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Santa Monica Camera Obscura · See more »
Santa Monica Pier
The Santa Monica Pier is a large double-jointed pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Santa Monica Pier · See more »
Santa Monica State Beach
Santa Monica State Beach is a California State Park operated by the city of Santa Monica.
New!!: Camera obscura and Santa Monica State Beach · See more »
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.
New!!: Camera obscura and Santa Monica, California · See more »
São Jorge Castle
São Jorge Castle (Castelo de São Jorge;; Saint George Castle) is a Moorish castle occupying a commanding hilltop overlooking the historic centre of the Portuguese city of Lisbon and Tagus River.
New!!: Camera obscura and São Jorge Castle · See more »
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress and singer.
New!!: Camera obscura and Scarlett Johansson · See more »
Scholasticism
Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics ("scholastics", or "schoolmen") of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 to 1700, and a program of employing that method in articulating and defending dogma in an increasingly pluralistic context.
New!!: Camera obscura and Scholasticism · See more »
Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
New!!: Camera obscura and Science Museum, London · See more »
Scioptic ball
The scioptic ball is a universal joint allowing an optical instrument mounted on a ball to be swiveled to point anywhere in a wide arc.
New!!: Camera obscura and Scioptic ball · See more »
Shelter Island, New York
Shelter Island is a town and island at the eastern end of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
New!!: Camera obscura and Shelter Island, New York · See more »
Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544.
New!!: Camera obscura and Shen Kuo · See more »
Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
New!!: Camera obscura and Song dynasty · See more »
South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.
New!!: Camera obscura and South Downs · See more »
Sunspot
Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas.
New!!: Camera obscura and Sunspot · See more »
Sutro District
The Sutro Historic District is a National Park Service historic district in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Sutro District · See more »
Sutro Heights Park
Sutro Heights Park is an historic public park in the Outer Richmond District of western San Francisco, California.
New!!: Camera obscura and Sutro Heights Park · See more »
Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
New!!: Camera obscura and Telescope · See more »
The Photographers' Gallery
The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London in 1971, as the first public gallery in the UK devoted solely to photography.
New!!: Camera obscura and The Photographers' Gallery · See more »
The Screen Behind the Mirror
The Screen Behind the Mirror is the fourth studio album by Enigma.
New!!: Camera obscura and The Screen Behind the Mirror · See more »
Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Alexandria (Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; 335 – c. 405) was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
New!!: Camera obscura and Theon of Alexandria · See more »
Tracing paper
Tracing paper is paper made to have low opacity, allowing light to pass through.
New!!: Camera obscura and Tracing paper · See more »
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
New!!: Camera obscura and United States · See more »
Universal joint
A universal joint (universal coupling, U-joint, Cardan joint, Spicer or Hardy Spicer joint, or Hooke's joint) is a joint or coupling connecting rigid rods whose axes are inclined to each other, and is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion.
New!!: Camera obscura and Universal joint · See more »
University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.
New!!: Camera obscura and University of Chicago Press · See more »
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
New!!: Camera obscura and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · See more »
Vitello
Witelo (also Erazmus Ciołek Witelo; Witelon; Vitellio; Vitello; Vitello Thuringopolonis; Vitulon; Erazm Ciołek); born ca.
New!!: Camera obscura and Vitello · See more »
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.
New!!: Camera obscura and Vladimir Nabokov · See more »
Zhoubi Suanjing
The Zhoubi Suanjing, or Chou Pei Suan Ching (周髀算经), is one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts.
New!!: Camera obscura and Zhoubi Suanjing · See more »
Redirects here:
Camera Obscura, Dark camera, Dark chamber, The camera obscura.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
