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  1. Plato

    Posted in Quotes.

  2. 墨翟 – Mozi

    Posted in Camera Obscura.
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  3. Aristotle

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  4. Cleomedes

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  5. Claudius Ptolemy

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  6. ابن سهل – Ibn Sahl

    Posted in Lens, Refraction of Light.

  7. Al Hazen ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم

    0965 – 1041

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  8. Robert Grosseteste

    1175 – 1253

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  9. Roger Bacon

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  10. Witelo

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  11. Leonardo da Vinci

    1452 – 1519

    Posted in Camera Obscura.
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  12. Gerolamo Cardano

    1501 – 1576

    Posted in biconvex lens, Camera Obscura.
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    Daniello Barbaro

    1513 – 1570

    Posted in Camera Obscura, Lens.
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  14. Giambattista della Porta

    1535 – 1615

    Posted in Camera Obscura, Lens.
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  15. William Shakespeare

    1564 – 1616

    Posted in Quotes.

  16. Willebrord Snell

    1580 – 1626

    Posted in -OPTICS, Lens, Refraction of Light.
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  17. René Descartes

    1596 – 1650

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  18. Pierre de Fermat

    1608 – 1665

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  19. Christiaan Huygens

    1629 – 1695

    Posted in Lens, Refraction of Light.

  20. Johann Heinrich Schulze

    1687 – 1744

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  21. Emanuel Swedenborg

    1688 – 1772

    Posted in Quotes.

    Tom Wedgewood

    Born: 1770

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  23. William Nicol

    1770 – 1881

    Posted in Polarized light.

  24. Humphrey Davy

    1778 – 1829

    Websites
    google books

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  25. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

    1787 – 1851

    Websites
    Colorized Boulevard du Temple at LUNARLOG

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  26. Sir John Frederick William Herschel

    1792 – 1871

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Astronomy, Botany, South Africa.
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  27. Antoine Claudet

    1797 – 1867

    Posted in Early Chemistry, London.
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  28. Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson

    Born: 1799

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  29. Henry Fox Talbot

    1800 – 1877

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Paris.
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  30. Hippolyte Bayard

    1807 – 1887

    Posted in Fauxtography, France.
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  31. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    1809 – 1894

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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  32. Frederick Scott Archer

    1813 – 1857

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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    Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

    1813 – 1871

    Posted in Insects, Photomicrography.
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  34. Martin Laroche

    1814 – 1886

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  35. Levi Hill

    1816 – 1865

    Websites
    Michelle Anne Delaney's site

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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  36. Thomas Sutton

    1819 – 1875

    Posted in Color.
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  37. Roger Fenton

    1819 – 1869

    Websites
    De Montfort University site

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, Fauxtography.
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  38. Alexander Gardner

    1821 – 1882

    Websites
    Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War exhibition at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Brule Sioux, Caddo, Delaware, Fauxtography, Heads of State, Kiowa, Mug Shots, Penateka Comanche, Rail.
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    Eugène Appert

    1830 – 1891

    Posted in Fauxtography, Paris Commune.

  40. Étienne-Jules Marey

    1830 – 1904

    Websites
    Musée d'Orsay

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion.
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  41. Eadweard Muybridge

    1830 – 1904

    Posted in 1872 - 73 Modoc War, Biomechanics, Guatemala, Modoc, Motion, Paiute.
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  42. August Toepler

    1836 – 1912

    Posted in Schlieren photography.

  43. Louis Ducos du Hauron

    1837 – 1920

    Posted in Color.

  44. William Willis

    1841 – 1923

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  45. Charles Cros

    1842 – 1882

    Posted in Color.

  46. H. H. Bennett

    1843 – 1908

    Posted in Dells of the Wisconsin River, Forestry + Lumber, High Speed, Rail.
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  47. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

    1844 – 1916

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion, Philadelphia.
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  48. Wilhelm Röntgen

    1845 – 1923

    Posted in X ray.
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  49. Gabriel Lippmann

    1845 – 1921

    Posted in Color.
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  50. Arthur Batut

    1846 – 1918

    Posted in Aerial.
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  51. Ottomar Anschütz

    1846 – 1907

    Posted in Aerospace, Biomechanics, Motion.
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  52. Thomas Alva Edison

    1847 – 1931

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.

  53. William Abner Eddy

    1850 – 1909

    Posted in Aerial.
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  54. Julius Neubronner

    1852 – 1932

    Posted in Aerial.
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  55. George Eastman

    1854 – 1932

    Websites
    Eastman House

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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  56. Albert Londe

    1858 – 1917

    Posted in Biomechanics, Medicine + Disease, Motion.
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  57. George Shiras

    1859 – 1942

    Posted in Camera Trap.
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  58. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

    1860 – 1935

    Posted in Motion.
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  59. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

    1863 – 1944

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Color, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  60. Edward Curtis

    1868 – 1952

    Posted in Alaska, Fauxtography, Hopi, Hupa, Lummi, Mandan, Navajo, Nez Perce, Niitsítapi, Pikáni.
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  61. George Lawrence

    1868 – 1938

    Posted in Aerial, Chicago, Earthquakes, San Fransisco.
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  62. Arnold Genthe

    1869 – 1942

    Posted in China > North America, Earthquakes, Fauxtography, Heads of State, San Fransisco.
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    L. P. Bonvillain

    Posted in Aerial.

    William Harding Longley

    1881 – 1937

    Websites
    National Geographic

    Posted in Underwater.
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    Albert Stevens

    1886 – 1949

    Posted in Aerial.
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    Charles Martin

    Posted in Marine, Underwater.
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  67. James Clerk Maxwell

    1891 – 1879

    Posted in Color.

  68. Rexford Guy Tugwell

    1891 – 1979

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Quotes.
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  69. Leopold Mannes

    1899 – 1964

    Posted in Kodachrome.
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  70. Leopold Godwsky

    1900 – 1983

    Posted in Kodachrome.
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  71. Dennis Gabor

    1900 – 1979

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Holography.

  72. Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton

    1903 – 1990

    Posted in EG&G, High Speed, Motion, Strobe, Underwater.

  73. Gjon Mili

    1904 – 1984

    Websites
    VP Gallery

    Posted in Motion, Strobe.

  74. Margaret Bourke-White

    1904 – 1971

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 Great Calcutta Riot, Fauxtography, India, Nazi Concentration Camps, Pakistan, Steel.
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  75. James Nasmyth

    1908 – 1890

    Posted in Fauxtography, Moon of Earth.
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  76. Edwin Land

    1909 – 1991

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.

  77. Edwin Land

    1909 – 1991

    Posted in Polarized light.
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  78. Luis Marden

    1913 – 2003

    Posted in China, Underwater.
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  79. Yevgeny Khaldei

    1917 – 1997

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Fauxtography.
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    Bill Taub

    1920 – 2010

    Websites
    Video at Apple.com

    Posted in Aerospace, High Speed, Rail.
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  81. Raymond D’Addario

    1920 – 2011

    Posted in Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Re-photography: Places, WWII - Aftermath.
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  82. Joe O’Donnell

    1922 – 2007

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Fauxtography, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Official White House Photographer, Pacific Theater.
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  83. Willard Boyle

    1924 – 2011

    Posted in Charge-coupled device.
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  84. George E. Smith

    Born: 1930

    Posted in Charge-coupled device.
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  85. "Flip" Graeme Phelps Schulke

    1930 – 2008

    Posted in Aerospace, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Cuba, Germany > U.S., Minnesota, Underwater.
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  86. Jimmy Olsen (Superman)

    Posted in Quotes.
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    Bates Littlehales

    Born: 1940

    Posted in CRIME, Underwater.
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  88. Emory Kristof

    Born: 1942

    Posted in Underwater.
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  89. Flash Gun Casey

    1943 – 1955

    Posted in CRIME, Quotes.
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  90. Camilo José Vergara

    Born: 1944

    Websites
    Invisible Cities

    Posted in Re-photography: Places.

  91. David Doubilet

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Marine, Underwater.
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  92. Neal Ulevich

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, Bangkok, China, Re-photography: Places, Soviet Union / Russia, Vietnam War - aftermath.
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  93. Nicholas Nixon

    Born: 1947

    Posted in HIV, Re-photography: People.

  94. Gary Braasch

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Climate Change, Re-photography: Places.
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  95. Anne Whiston Spirn

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Dorothea Lange's 1939 places in 2006, Sweden.
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  96. Steve McCurry

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Cambodia, Pakistan, Re-photography: People, Thailand.
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  97. L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jeffries (Rear Window)

    Posted in Quotes.
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  98. Peter Turnley

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 1990 - 91 Gulf War Desert Storm, California, China, Indiana, Israel + Palestine, Paris, Quotes, South Africa.

    George Steinmetz

    Born: 1957

    Posted in Aerial.
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  100. Eric Etheridge

    Born: 1957

    Posted in 1961 Freedom Rides, Re-photography: People.