Christopher Scheiner
Christopher Scheiner
A Jesuit Friar called Christopher Schiener made an amazing observation in the mid 17th Century whereby he had observed an image laid bare on the retina of a frog, a faint, fleeting record of what the eye had been fixed on at the moment its owner had died. It was rumoured it became possible to fix this image and create what is termed an Optogram. (Time-Life, 1970)
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Finding the piece of text below in a Time-life book around the turn of this century started my obsession with optography.