photography
The word photography derives from the Greek words ' fos ' - meaning light and ' grafo ' - to write. The word was popularized by Sir John Herschel in 1839. Modern photography began in the 1820s with the first permanent photographs . A camera obscura box used for drawing images Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries. Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Ti and Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5 th and 4 th centuries B.C.E, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ibn al - Haytham ( Alhazen ) (965–1040) studied the camera obscura and pinhole camera, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Albertus Magnus (1193/1206-1280) discovered silver nitrate , and Georges Fabricius (1516-1571) discovered silver chloride . Daniel Barbaro described a diaphragm in 1568. Wilhelm Homberg described how light darkened some chemicals (photochemical effect) in 1694. The novel Giphantie (by the French Tiphaigne de...