{"id":1736,"date":"2024-04-03T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2024-04-03T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:51:53","slug":"a-brief-history-of-light-from-ancient-greece-to-the-middle-ages-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/a-brief-history-of-light-from-ancient-greece-to-the-middle-ages-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Light &#8211; From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this video we start a journey through the history of human ideas about the nature of light. It&#8217;s a long journey but we&#8217;ll try to keep it brief and concise. In this first part we focus on Europe and on the Middle East. In future posts we&#8217;ll move on to the time from 16h to the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last post. And that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve spent quite some time doing the ground work for a few upcoming posts. This is one of them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I intend this blog to be about the history, science and technology of photography. And a key component of photography is light. So what better place to start is there than our (human) theories about light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Brief History of Light - From Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UOo6phw0Uc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The English translation of Euclid&#8217;s Optics, mentioned in the video, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/philomatica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Optics-of-Euclid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The map about Ancient Greece is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_colonisation#\/media\/File:Greek_Colonization_Archaic_Period.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this map from Wikipedia, created by Dipa1965<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I created the other maps myself using <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:World_map_blank_without_borders.svg\">this blank map created by Crates<\/a> and other maps found online.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All other media are either in the public domain or self-created.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The content is to a large part based on the book &#8216;A History of Optics&#8217; by Olivier Darrigol, supplemented by additional resources from universities and the internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be worth pointing out that the images of historical figures shown in this video were generally created long after the individuals&#8217; life time, so they probably bear little resemblance to the actual individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video we start a journey through the history of human ideas about the nature of light. 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