in the early hours cameras of the 16th and 17th century were able to project images onto paper or glass but the study of capturing, dispensation and printing the images took many more years. Awake until the 17th century, scientists believed that light was composed essentially of the ‘white’ that is perceived by the human eye. It took the research done by well-known physicist Isaac Newton to discover that light is actually composed of a variety of colors. While he made a big contribution to the study of optics (that is at the core of camera advances) with this discovery, Newton did not actually have anything to do by means of camera development per se.
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