Personality Flashcards
A Chinese Philisopher who is mention in the first surviving principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura who referred to a device as a collecting plate or locked treasure room. (Delizo, 2015)
- Mozi “Mo – ti” (470 –
391 BC)
A famous Greek Philosopher who invented the first pinhole camera that was known later as Camera Obscura (Italian word for darkroom chamber) which is literally translated as Darkened Box. He is an Artist or painter, in order to get accurate perspective of natural scene and scale of their subjects he used the camera obscura. He was the one who succeeded in recording the principle that light entering through a small hole produces an inverted image or figure. (Tad – awan, 2013)
- Aristotle (347 – 322
BC)
An Arabian scholar who found out that light entering a small hole on the wall or shuttered window of a darkened room cast an upside down picture of the scene outside onto the opposite wall. He used this in observing the solar eclipse by entering a darkroom with a pinhole opening to avoid harming the eye. (Tad– awan, 2013)
Alhazen “Ibn Al –
Haytham” (965 – 1039
AD)
He wrote a book entitled “La pratica della perspettiva” on perspective for artists and architects. This work describes how to use a lens with a camera obscura. He introduced the use of the lens in the camera. (Pallista, 2019)
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro
An English Philosopher, Mathematician, and Physicist who discovered and proved that the strongest light is white light. He defended his theory by allowing a white light (sunlight) to pass through a prism thus refracting and diffracting the light onto different colors. (Pallista, 2019)
- Sir Isaac Newton
(1666)
A German Scientist (Anatomist) discovered the Silver
Nitrate when he exposed it to light it turns purple. He got interesting in his finding and that fair later, he discovered that the evening action was not due to the heat but light. He finally concluded that silver nitrate
is sensitive to light and capable of producing images.
(Pallista, 2019)
Johann Heinrich
Schulze (1727)
An artist and scientist who in his Pseudo Science Magic had made use of the Camera Obscura and
replaced the hole with a lens which made the image brighter and sharper. He was the first one who introduced the lens. (Pallista, 2019)
Jean Baptiste Forta
(1748 – 1796)
He discovered that Silver Chloride is more sensitive than silver nitrate and thus, more capable of
recording and producing images. (Pallista, 2019)
- Thomas Wedgwood
(1802)
He was able to obtain camera images on papers sensitized with silver chloride solution in 1816.
However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. He invented a photographic process which he called heliography meaning writing of the sun. (Pallista, 2019)
Joseph Nicéphore
Niépce (1816)
An American artist and inventor. He is the reason why Photography arrived in the United States. Morse visited Daguerre in Paris in March 1839 and observed a demonstration of the daguerreotype process. Morse returned to the United States to spread the news. (Pallista, 2019)
Samuel Finley
Breese Morse (1839)
He coined the term photographie. (Delizo, 2015)
- Hercules Florence
(1834)
He invented Daguerreotype, an early photograph produced on a silver or silver – covered copper plate. It formed an image directly on the silver surface of a metal plate. It was a positive process, thus, it yielded one of a kind images. (Pallista, 2019)
Louis – Jacques –
Mande Daguerre (1837)
He succeeded in contact printings made in his miniature cameras (mouse – trap cameras) through a process called photogenic drawing. He invented a process called Calotype, a photographic process by which a large number of prints could be produced
from a paper negative. Calotype use paper with surface fibers impregnated with light sensitive
compounds. He also discovered the latent image, the invisible product of a short exposure which could be chemically developed. (Sarmiento, n. d.)
William Henry Fox
Talbot (1839)
He coined the term Photography and applied the terms negative and positive to photography. He made improvements in photographic processes, particularly in inventing the Cyanotype process using
Ferric Ammonium Citrate and Potassium Ferricyanide, the precursors of the modern blueprint process. Father of Photography. (Pallista, 2019)
John Frederick William Herschel (1839)
He introduced a process of negatives on glass using albumen as a binding medium. (Sarmiento, n.d.)
Abel Niepce de Saint
– Victor (1848)
