Exploring the History of Photography

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Photography is derived from two Greek words photo and ______.

graph

It was coined by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental ______.

photographer

An early concept of ______ has been around since about the 5th century B.C.E.

photography

It wasn't until an Iraqi scientist Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham developed something called the ______ obscura in the 11th century that the art was born.

<p>camera</p> Signup and view all the answers

The first camera obscura used a ______ in a tent to project an image from outside the tent into the darkened area.

<p>pinhole</p> Signup and view all the answers

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