Pre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

1877
JEAN-DANIEL COLLADON (1802-1893)
In 1877, we find in an American book called ‘The Art of Projection’ by Prof. Amos Emerson Dolbear, a very interesting description of luminous fountains, with this superb engraving, below.

It was known as the luminous ‘Fountain of Colladon’.

A caricature of William Selig from the London ‘K & L Weekly’ publication.

Not only was he a well known and successful American film studio pioneer, he was also best friends with the king of the jungle. https://t.co/pvGOIlYXs8

A pivoted arm and a stylus traces a pattern in the soot of the smoky black disk, appearing on the screen as brilliant white lines.

Below, a ‘Cycloidotrope’ story in the Scientific American p390 19 December 1885.

‘Spirograph’ was made by Milton Bradley & Kenner. https://t.co/CSvJzT7eZe

1709
ZACHARIAS CONRAD VON UFFENBACH (1683-1734)
On 19 November von Uffenbach defined some slides he saw of a carriage that moved due to revolving wheels he said.

These brass wheels were moved by the use of pulling a thread. -30- https://t.co/5u9ERTzuzc

1626
WILLEBRORD SNELL VAN ROIJEN (1580-1626)
This polymath professor at @UniLeiden discovers the law governing the refraction of light which is the principal of dioptrics, but did not publish it.

Later in 1703 Christiaan Huygens published the Snellius findings in ‘Dioptrica’.

It's been suggested that 'Photismi De Lumine et Umbra' might be the most remarkable optical treatise of the sixteenth century outside the tradition of Alhazen, or even the best optical book of the Renaissance.

Maurolycus line engraving by M. Bovis after Polidoro da Caravaggio. https://t.co/jMWBESeJhF

Maurolycus concerns himself with light rays & their direction in the camera.

In the year he died, he published 'Photismi De Lumine Et Umbra'.

Portrait of Maurolycus is a line engraving by G. Guzzi after a portrait by Polidoro di Caravaggio. https://t.co/OoVWvwSTfW

Fevriers ‘Pillar Stereoscope’ provided an absurd 3D effect and enlarged the photographs being viewed, that “nothing can better represent natural objects.”

Turning a small knob causes an axis to rotate around which the ‘Stereoscopic Photographs’ are arranged. https://t.co/bJuOYuDalq

Holmes used these results in his work at that time; improving the design of artificial limbs for civil war amputees.

The marvellous use of Photography in studying motion and movement of the human body allowed civil war amputees to lead a far more active and fulfilling life. https://t.co/iDoy8WlQZH

Used by many artists, the ‘Camera Obscura’ was popular with amateurs also and travellers anxious to keep visual journals of the countryside while on the Grand Tour.

And sometimes, we see the device highlighted within the actual art itself (Van Loo, Desmarees et al). https://t.co/Mag8tsjwve