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  1. 墨翟 – Mozi

    Posted in Camera Obscura.
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  2. Aristotle

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  3. Cleomedes

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  4. Claudius Ptolemy

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  5. ابن سهل – Ibn Sahl

    Posted in Lens, Refraction of Light.

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

    0965 – 1041

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  7. Robert Grosseteste

    1175 – 1253

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  8. Roger Bacon

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  9. Witelo

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  10. Leonardo da Vinci

    1452 – 1519

    Posted in Camera Obscura.
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  11. 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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  13. Giambattista della Porta

    1535 – 1615

    Posted in Camera Obscura, Lens.
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  14. Willebrord Snell

    1580 – 1626

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

    1596 – 1650

    Posted in Refraction of Light.

  16. Pierre de Fermat

    1608 – 1665

    Posted in Refraction of Light.
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  17. Christiaan Huygens

    1629 – 1695

    Posted in Lens, Refraction of Light.

  18. Johann Heinrich Schulze

    1687 – 1744

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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    Tom Wedgewood

    Born: 1770

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  20. William Nicol

    1770 – 1881

    Posted in Polarized light.

  21. Humphrey Davy

    1778 – 1829

    Websites
    google books

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  22. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

    1787 – 1851

    Websites
    Colorized Boulevard du Temple at LUNARLOG

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

    1792 – 1871

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

    1797 – 1867

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

    Born: 1799

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  26. Henry Fox Talbot

    1800 – 1877

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Paris.
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  27. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    1809 – 1894

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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    Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

    1813 – 1871

    Posted in Insects, Photomicrography.
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  29. Frederick Scott Archer

    1813 – 1857

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  30. Martin Laroche

    1814 – 1886

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  31. Levi Hill

    1816 – 1865

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    Michelle Anne Delaney's site

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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  32. Thomas Sutton

    1819 – 1875

    Posted in Color.
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  33. Étienne-Jules Marey

    1830 – 1904

    Websites
    Musée d'Orsay

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion.
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  34. Eadweard Muybridge

    1830 – 1904

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

    1836 – 1912

    Posted in Schlieren photography.

  36. Louis Ducos du Hauron

    1837 – 1920

    Posted in Color.

  37. William Willis

    1841 – 1923

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  38. Charles Cros

    1842 – 1882

    Posted in Color.

  39. H. H. Bennett

    1843 – 1908

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

    1844 – 1916

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

    1845 – 1923

    Posted in X ray.
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  42. Gabriel Lippmann

    1845 – 1921

    Posted in Color.
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  43. Arthur Batut

    1846 – 1918

    Posted in Aerial.
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  44. Ottomar Anschütz

    1846 – 1907

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

    1847 – 1931

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.

  46. William Abner Eddy

    1850 – 1909

    Posted in Aerial.
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  47. Julius Neubronner

    1852 – 1932

    Posted in Aerial.
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  48. George Eastman

    1854 – 1932

    Websites
    Eastman House

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.
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  49. Albert Londe

    1858 – 1917

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

    1859 – 1942

    Posted in Camera Trap.
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  51. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

    1860 – 1935

    Posted in Motion.
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  52. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

    1863 – 1944

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Color, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  53. George Lawrence

    1868 – 1938

    Posted in Aerial, Chicago, Earthquakes, San Fransisco.
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    L. P. Bonvillain

    Posted in Aerial.

    William Harding Longley

    1881 – 1937

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    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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  58. James Clerk Maxwell

    1891 – 1879

    Posted in Color.

  59. Leopold Mannes

    1899 – 1964

    Posted in Kodachrome.
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  60. Leopold Godwsky

    1900 – 1983

    Posted in Kodachrome.
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  61. Dennis Gabor

    1900 – 1979

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Holography.

  62. Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton

    1903 – 1990

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

  63. Gjon Mili

    1904 – 1984

    Websites
    VP Gallery

    Posted in Motion, Strobe.

  64. Edwin Land

    1909 – 1991

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding.

  65. Edwin Land

    1909 – 1991

    Posted in Polarized light.
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  66. Luis Marden

    1913 – 2003

    Posted in China, Underwater.
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    Bill Taub

    1920 – 2010

    Websites
    Video at Apple.com

    Posted in Aerospace, High Speed, Rail.
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  68. Willard Boyle

    1924 – 2011

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

    Born: 1930

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

    1930 – 2008

    Posted in Aerospace, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Cuba, Germany > U.S., Minnesota, Underwater.
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    Bates Littlehales

    Born: 1940

    Posted in CRIME, Underwater.
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  72. Emory Kristof

    Born: 1942

    Posted in Underwater.
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  73. David Doubilet

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Marine, Underwater.
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    George Steinmetz

    Born: 1957

    Posted in Aerial.
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  75. Tim MacMillan

    Born: 1960

    Websites
    Early works video on YouTube

    Posted in Motion.

  76. Thomas Knoll

    Posted in Photoshop.

  77. Ren Ng

    Born: 1980

    Posted in Plenotpic Photography.