One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

His Optics is a work that survives only in a poor Arabic translation and in about twenty manuscripts of a Latin version of the Arabic, which was translated by Eugene of Palermo ( c. 1154 ).

It was first demonstrated by a team at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in December 2005.

Optics, for instance, was revolutionized by people like Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, René Descartes and, once again, Isaac Newton, who developed mathematical theories of light as either waves ( Huygens ) or particles ( Newton ).

* 1021 – Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ) of Basra, Iraq writes his influential Book of Optics from 1011 to 1021 ( while he was under house arrest in Egypt ),

The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the instruments after characters in Astrid Lindgren's books: PIPPI ( Prelude in Planetary Particle Imaging ), EMIL ( Electron Measurements-In-situ and Lightweight ), and MIO ( Miniature Imaging Optics ).

This was included in his list of inventions in his book, " Mechanics and Optics ".

This X-ray image of Cygnus X-1 was taken by a balloon-borne telescope, the High Energy Replicated Optics ( HERO ) project.

His Book of Optics was translated into Italian in the 14th century as Deli Aspecti, and was quoted at length in Ghiberti's “ Commentario terzo .” Author A.

In the Book of Optics ( c. 1025 AD ), his scientific method was very similar to the modern scientific method and consisted of the following procedures:

In 2006, Meyer was recognized as honorary doctor of Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

After he explained this to the Society, he proceeded: " When I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works ; for I saw, that the perfection of telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of Optics Authors ( which all men have hitherto imagined ), as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays.

* Prof Charles Gorrie Wynne, worked for Taylor, Taylor & Hobson ( now Cooke Optics ) and invented important optical lens techniques, and was Editor from 1954-65 of Optica Acta ( 1922-9 )

In 1981, JDS Optics was founded by Jozef Straus, Philip Garel-Jones, Gary Duck, and Bill Sinclair.

In 1903 – 04 a separate Technical Optics department was established.

A further account was given in the first edition of Newton's Optics ( 1704 ).

The Optics was originally a national discipline in 1980s, but not as much currently.

Initially called the side-looking radar project, it was carried out by a group first known as the Radar Laboratory and later as the Radar and Optics Laboratory.

The Nikkor brand was introduced in 1932, a Westernised rendering of an earlier version Nikkō ( 日光 ), an abbreviation of the company's original full name Nippon Kōgaku (" Japan Optics "; 日本光学工業株式会社 ).

* ADONIS, an acronym for ADaptive Optics Near Infrared System, was a second-generation adaptive optics system for the astronomical community.

He wrote many books on optics, most significantly the Book of Optics ( Kitab al Manazir in Arabic ), translated into Latin as the De aspectibus or Perspectiva, which disseminated his ideas to Western Europe and had great influence on the later developments of optics.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians.

and influenced the more famous 11th century Optics by Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ).

Latin translation of the Book of Optics ( 1021 ), written by the Islamic physics | Iraqi physicist, Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ).

* 1021 – The Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen or Alhacen ) is completed.

1030-Treasury of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ) of Iraq and Egypt

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Most notable for the Alfa Matrix signed bands, Zombie Girl ( on the album Blood Brains and Rock ' n ' Roll ) and also for another female fronted industrial metal act I: Scintilla who released their album " Optics " on the Belgian industrial label Alfa Matrix holding a bonus disc with a remix by Mortiis beside others by Combichrist, Clan Of Xymox.

Islamic science gave the first exemplar of a mathematical realist theory with Alhazen's Book of Optics in which physical light rays traveled along mathematical straight lines.

In the 12th century, his Book of Optics was translated into Latin and continued to be studied both in the Islamic world and in Europe until the 17th century.

St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics won their fourth world championship, the most by any University at the time.

The acquisition allows GfK a very strong measurement representation to the world market for Optics industry.

Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world.