The Beginning of Photography

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        First, the name. We owe the name Photography to Sir John Herschel, who first employ the

term in 1839, the year the photographic process became public. The word is derived from the

Greek lyric for light and writing.

        Before mentioning the stages that led to the development of photography, there is one

amazing, preferably uncanny prediction do by a small-arm called de la Roche (1729-1774) in a work

called Giphantie. In this imaginary tale, it was mathematical to capture images from nature, on a

canvas which had been coated with a sticky substance.1 This surface, so the tale goes, would not

only provide a mirror image on the sticky canvas, but would remain on it. After it had been dried

in the unlighted the image would remain permanent. The author would not have cognize how

prophetic this tale would be, only a few decades after his death.

         in that respect are two explicit scientific processes that combine to draw off photography possible. It

is somewhat surprising that photography was not invented early than the 1830s, because these

processes had been known for quite some time. It was not until the two distinct scientific

processes had been put together that photography came into be.

        The first of these processes was optical.



The Camera Obscura (dark room) had been in

existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing, go out 1519, of a Camera Obscura

by Leonardo da Vinci; about this selfsame(prenominal) period its use as an aid to drawing was being advocated.2

        The second process was chemical. For hundreds of years before photography was

invented, tribe had been aware, for example, that some colours are bleached in the sun, but

they had made little distinction between heat, air and light.

        In the sixteen hundreds Robert Boyle, a founder of the...

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