"I was giddy," Morell said. "It felt like the moment photography was invented." From that eureka moment, Morell has gone on to produce with his camera obscura one of the most original and ...

In 989 A.D. the Arabian scholar Hassan ibn Hassan described this accidental invention and gave it a name: the camera obscura. The principle of the camera obscura had arrived in Europe by 1267 ...

Morell needed it to negate as much light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. The earliest written account of a camera obscura was ...

If you're traveling with kids, there is no better place in Edinburgh than Camera Obscura and World of Illusions. Located at the top of the heavily (tourist) trafficked Royal Mile, Camera Obscura ...

The photograph was then taken on this surface using the camera obscura. This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip will be relevant for teaching Chemistry and History.

January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal Society of London a paper on photogenic drawing, permanent camera obscura images ... Land announces his invention of the ...