the history and the evolution of the camera obscura

Pinhole= camera obscura.
You can create a camera obscura with a room or a box.

MOZI (470 a.c-390 a.c)

Was a chinese philosopher and founder of Mohism.
He did the first description of the camera obscura over 2000 years ago.

ARISTOTELES (350 a.c)

He made practical use of the principles of a pinhole camera by observing.

ALHAZEN (965 d.c-1038 d.c)

He described the phenomenon perfectly and he used the principle of the camera obscura to describe how the image gets formed in the eye.
He was astronomer and physicist.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1490 d.c)

He was the first one who noticed the similarity between the way that a camera obscura worked and the way the human eye functioned.

THE RENAISSANCE

Artists started using the camera obscura. They started to imitate the reality.
Holands masters renowed for their meticulous detail. That was an important impact in art.

JOHANNES KEPLES (1604 d.c)

He used fist time in the history the camera obscura and Robert Hooke started creating cameras obscuras.

How create a camera obscura

Material:

HOW TO CREATE THE CAMERA OBSCURA:

1. Get the box and cut two squares in the smallests sides of the box, one biggest than the other.

2. Paint all the inside of the box with the black paint and let her dry off.

3. Then, with the tape, hook up the foil in the smallest side that we cut before.

4. Do a very small hole with the needlefish in the centre of the foil.

5. Finally, with the tape too, hook up the transparent paper without doing any hole.

6. Enjoy your camera obscura!

- box
- foil
- needlefish
- transparent paper
- dark paint
- scissors
- tape