In 1826 or 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made history when he took the world's first photograph from the ...

Aristotle described the phenomenon back in the fourth century B.C.Leonardo in Renaissance ... Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps ...

All the way back to at least the 5th Century BC, where the Chinese philosopher ... reflections well enough to use something called a "camera obscura" to view and sometimes record images.