Re: PhotoWork Art & Technique

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:24:29 +0000 (GMT), George Smyth wrote:

|I was underwhelmed.

So was I, but for a rather different reason.  The historical article
seems to contain some dubious research.  In particular, I find it
quite difficult to believe that an Arab who invented a way of
examining a solar eclipse by cutting a small hole in a tent and then
providing a white surface for the sun's image to form on would name
his invention in Latin--as a camera obscura.  And how can the camera
obscura have been his invention when, according to at least one
encyclopedia, it existed in ancient Rome a millenium before the Arab
was born?

In other respects it looks as though the magazine might be somewhat
interesting.  But not very.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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