Alhazen

The most prominent motif in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the motif of light and dark. In this famous tragedy, beauty is often associated with light. Before Romeo meets Juliet his world is described as dark, gloomy and depressed, after he meets her, however, it is evident that Juliet brings him light. Essentially, Juliet is the healer of Romeo’s depression. The motif of light and dark in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is shown to change over the course of five acts. The beginning of Act 1 is the only part of the entire play where Romeo and Juliet do not know each other. Consequently, when describing Romeo, his cousin, Benvolio, uses dark and dreary language to discuss his situation. “...shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes him an artificial night” (1.1.143). In this quote, light is seen as healthy and positive while the darkness is used to represent Romeo’s depression. Romeo is depressed because Rosaline, the girl he is in love with, does not feel the same way about him. Readers can also interpret this as describing Rosaline as darkness because she is not Romeo’s true love. Toward the end of Act 1, Romeo meets Juliet and instantly begins to talk about her using descriptors of light. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright” (1.5.51). Here, Romeo is saying that because Juliet is so beautiful, or her beauty is so bright, she has the ability to teach torches how to emit light. Throughout the rest of the play, Juliet is constantly associated…

This word was constructed to name a method of capturing images by the conduction of light, or associated radiation, on a sensitive material. Alhazen, also known as Ibn Al-Haytham, who lived around 1000AD in the Middle Ages invented the first pinhole camera, also called the Camera Obscura. The camera obscura is a space or room with a hole in one side, creating a dark place inside while on the other side is the image to be captured. Light from the external scene travels through the hole and…

seconds, 100 pixels and 100 pixels back and white image appeared. (AFR. 2015) Digital Camera was a ground breaking invention as it was the first digital camera made by mankind . The digital camera today has helped the mankind to create many advanced digital cameras such as Nikon and cannon. These cameras are advanced in taking many photos which were impossible to catch in the past.…

there can be no photo. The first camera was called the pinhole camera, also known as the camera obscura. The idea of this camera was invented back in the 5th century BCE. It wasn’t your typical camera like the ones we have today but it’s the best concept they had to build and improve to make a structure like the ones we have today. The pinhole camera was made out of a box with a small hole inside it and inside, a light would travel and reflect against a mirror. The light itself carries the…

Ibn al-Haytham was born in Basra in 354 AH / 965 AD in the period were considered Islamic Golden Age, and historians disagree whether of Arab origin or Persian. Also known by the Latinization Alhazen or Alhacen. Ibn al-Haytham began to receive science, during that period he spent in Basra, where he read many of the books of the Islamic faith and scientific books. That era was booming in various sciences of mathematics and astronomy, medicine, etc., there are embarked on the study of engineering…

telescope. Telescopes can vary in shape, size, and even color, but are all used for similar reasons. The development of the telescope dates back to around the 1600s and are still being developed and made today. Today, there are several telescopes that can be identified by people who worked and contributed into making some of the very first telescopes. Around 1608, the very first telescope in history was made. This telescope appeared in the Netherlands which was proposed by the national…

advantage of SLR cameras is accuracy. If the image the photographer sees on the viewfinder is inconceivably different, the final composition of the photograph will be different than expected. The SLR also comes with some hefty disadvantages. SLR cameras tend to be more bulkier than other types of cameras. SLR cameras are louder because of the physical component of the mirror. SLR cameras, like previously stated, are more complex, which may lead to quicker and more expensive repairs. These…

330 BC, and at that time, I’m sure that they would have never dreamed of what would become of it today. Aristotle and a few other philosophers were trying to prove why an image would flip if it were to be put throw a spectrum. Aristotle made the first reference to the optic laws in 330 BC, after he was finally able to explain exactly what was happening the the image. The Optic law is now used in many different fields of study today, but most importantly in photography. In 1,000 AD, Alhazen Ibn…

advanced over a long period of time. Images were taken from the human body, ocean, and even space. Since photography is continuously being upgraded there are different categories for picture taking. There are four types of photography: portrait, nature, news, and amateur. There are also two areas of photography still and motion. Photography has been in the air since the B.C.’s. It all started when Mo Di, a chinese philosopher, discovered in 400 B.C. that light reflects from an object and…

nervous system distinguishes between sensory nerves and motor nerves 250 BC – In Greece, Erasistratus brain studies distinguishes between the cerebrum and cerebellum AD 50-70 – In Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides writes De Materia Medica – since used for almost 1600 years next 220 – In China, Zhang Zhongjing publishes Shang Han Lun – complete medical textbook on diagnosis, treatment and prognosis 610-800 – In Arab, Muhammad discussed the contagious nature of leprosy, mange and sexually…