Johann Zahn
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Johann Zahn (29 March 1641,
Zahn was a
The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography (that is, actually capturing the image on some sort of medium) was envisioned by Zahn in 1685, though it would be almost 150 years before technology caught up to the point where this was possible to actually build (see History of the camera).
In Oculus Artificialis, Zahn's comprehensive description of the magic lantern (along with twelve other different lanterns) includes some of these lanterns showing for the first time
Zahn used the magic lantern, whose invention he credited to Athanasius Kircher, for anatomical lectures.
He also illustrated a large workshop camera obscura for solar observations using the
Zahn is also the author of a compendium of mathematics and natural history, titled Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum (1696). Religions-Hindu
Works
- Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive Telescopium. Vol. 1. Herbi Poli: Quirinus Heyl. 1685. Bibcode:1685oats.book.....Z.
- Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive Telescopium. Vol. 2. Herbi Poli: Quirinus Heyl, Johann Georg Drullmann. 1686.
- Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive Telescopium. Vol. 3. Herbi Poli: Quirinus Heyl. 1686.
- Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum. Vol. 1. Norimbergae: Johann Christoph Lochner, Andreas Knorz. 1696.
- Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum. Vol. 2. Norimbergae: Johann Christoph Lochner, Andreas Knorz. 1696.
- Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum. Vol. 3. Norimbergae: Johann Christoph Lochner, Andreas Knorz. 1696.
References
- Ralf Kern: Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit/Streben nach Genauigkeit in Zeit und Raum. Cologne, 2010
- Wolfgang Grassl: Culture of Place. An Intellectual Profile of the Premonstratensian Order. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2012, 325-331
Sources
- Burns, Paul The History of the Discovery of Cinematography Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine An Illustrated Chronology
- de Luikerwaal: Oculus artificialis teledioptricus
- Pre-history of Photography
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Camera Obscura". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 104–107. (See p. 107.)
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