The Camera Obscura

Before the invention of photography, here is what Leonardo da Vinci said
about the camera obscura. Can you pinhole photographers relate?

"who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the
universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature
such as these? What tonque will it be that can unfold so great a wonder?
Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discource to the considering
of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of
every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so
marvelous!"

--Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)

Lonnie Paulson
Minneapolis, MN
USA
Received on Sun Apr 8 17:08:26 2001