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  • The Invention of the Camera
  • (Ibn al Haytham)

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  • The camera is one of the most powerful
    instruments ever invented.

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  • Still photographs and moving pictures have
    provided man the ability to record and display
    images of every kind - from the first few cells
    of a human embryo to galaxies, billions of light
    years away.

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  • But did you know that the principles, on which
    all cameras are based, were laid down around one
    thousand years ago by the Muslim scientist and
    philosopher, Ibn Al-Haytham?

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Ibn al Haytham
  • was born in Basra
  • died in Cairo in 1039 C.E
  • He is the most outstanding physicist of the
    Middle Ages and wrote over two hundred scientific
    works.
  • his best-known and most influential work in
    Europe was the Optics

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  • It was Ibn Al-Haytham who first discovered that
    light travels in straight lines.
  • In refraction his outstanding contribution was
    the application of the rectangle of velocities at
    the surface of refraction, six centuries before
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).

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Ibn al Haytham
  • A darkroom, was the prototype of the modern
    photographic camera.
  • It worked on the principle that rays of light,
    reflected from any illuminated object will pass
    through a tiny hole in a dark room and project
    the image of the object upside-down on a wall
    inside the room. I
  • t was a revolutionary invention in the field of
    optics. The term camera obscura was first used in
    Western scientific literature by Joseph Kepler
    (1571 - 1630).

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The Invention of the Camera
  • Ibn-alHaytham and his student Kamal ad-Din teamed
    up making history when they first observed and
    record the camera obsecura phenomenon.

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The Invention of the Camera
  • The obsecura phenomenon is literary defined by
    Webster's dictionary as "dark chamber." Usually
    is a cardboard with a tiny pinhole, that is the
    ground work of a camera.

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Refferences
  • http//www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?a
    rticleID382
  • http//www
  • http//www.bradleysteffens.unimwebcenter.com/.isla
    mic-study.org/optics.htm

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