1600-1700
1646 The German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher publishes Ars Magna Lucis et umbrae, in which he describes projection experiments performed with mirrors and lenses. 1659 Earliest description of a magic lantern, in the notes of Dutch scientist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens.
>> Watch video magic lantern 1 (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video magic lantern 2 (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video anamorphic drawings 1 (La llum del cinema series). >> Watch video anamorphic drawings 2 (La llum del cinema series). 1665 The Dane Thomas Rasmussen Walgenstein is the first to perform public projections with a magic lantern. | Photography It begins in the 1820s >> | Amateur Film It begins in the 1890s >> | Television and video It begins in the 1860s >> | Sound It begins in the 1850s >> |
