The History of The Discovery of Cinematography



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1	CHINESE SCIENCE / EXPLORATIONS OF AN ANCIENT TRADITION Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivan The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1973, Volume II

2	A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE Lynn Thorndike Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1923,1941, Volume 2, Ch.55, 61,68 5,7,8

3	THE NATURE OF LIGHT / AN HISTORICAL SURVEY Vasco Ronchi, Translated by V. Barocas Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1970

4	INDEX TO SCIENTISTS OF THE WORLD FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES: BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS Nora O. Ireland F.W. Faxon, Boston, Mass., 1962

5	ASIMOV'S BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEADIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE LIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1,510 GREAT SCIENTISTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED Issac Asimov Doubleday, New York, 2nd Edition, 1982

6	DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY: DETAILED ARTICLES ON HISTORICAL FIGURES IN 16 VOLUMES Compilation Scribner, New York, 1970-1980

7	FILM AS ART Rudolf Arnheim University of California Press, 1957

8	BASIC PHOTO SCIENCE: HOW PHOTOGRAPHY WORKS H.J. Walss and G.G. Attridge Focal Press, New York, 1959 1st Edition, 1977 2nd Edition

9	COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHS Landt and Lisl Dennis E.P. Dutton, New York, 1977

10	CANELETTO AND HIS PATRONS J.G. Links Paul Elek Ltd., London, 1977

11	A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MOVIES Gerald Mast Bobs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1976

12	THE MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jacobson, Ray, Attridge & Axford Focal Press, New York, 7th Edition, 1978

13	THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA David Robinson Stein & Day, New York, 1973

14	THE BOOK OF MOVIE PHOTOGRAPHY David Cheshire Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979

15	THE MISSING REEL / THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LOST INVENTOR OF MOVING PICTURES Christopher Rawlence Atheneum, New York, 1990

16	A TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES AND TELEVISION Journal of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967

17	THE EDISON MOTION PICTURE MYTH Gordon Hendricks University of California Press, Berkeley, 1961

18	ANIMAL LOCOMOTION / THE MUYBRIDGE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Eadweard Muybridge Arno Press Literature of Photography Series, New York, 1973

19	THE KINETOSCOPE / AMERICA'S FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR Gordon Hendricks The Beginnings of the American Film, New York, 1966

20	BEGINNINGS OF THE BIOGRAPH / THE STORY OF THE MUTOSCOPE AND THE BIOGRAPH AND THEIR SUPPLYING CAMERA Gordon Hendricks The Beginnings of the American Film, New York, 1964

21	L.J.M. DAGUERRE / THE HISTORY OF THE DIORAMA AND THE DAGUERREOTYPE Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Dover Publications, New York, 2nd Edition, 1968

22	THE MOTION PICTURE / FROM MAGIC LANTERN TO SOUND FILM Julius Pfragner, Translated by Theodore McClintock Bailey Brothers & Swinfen, London, 1974

23	A HISTORY OF THE CINEMA FROM IT'S ORIGINS TO 1970 Eric Rhode Hill & Wang, New York, 1976

24	HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Peter Turner Hamlyn, London, 1987

25	THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE / GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, 1952

26	ARCHIMEDES Chris Rorres, Professor of Mathematics Drexel University, Greece	Visit ARCHIMEDES Online

27	THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY / FROM 1839 TO THE PRESENT DAY Beaumont Newhall The Museum of Modern Art, New York

28	THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY / FROM THE CAMERA OBSCURA TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA Helmut & Alison Gernsheim Thames & Hudson, London, 1969

29	THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN Harry Houdini Routledge & Sons, London, 1909

30	THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Georges Potonniee Arno Press Literature of Photography Series, New York, 1936 & 1973

31	IBN AL-HAITHAM / 1000TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan, 1965

32	VOIGTLANDER AND I / IN PURSUIT OF SHADOW CATCHING James F. Ryder Imperial Press, Cleveland, 1902

33	MOVING PICTURES / AND HOW THEY ARE MADE AND WORKED Frederick A. Talbot William Heinemann, London, 1912

34	ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CINEMA C.W. Ceram Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965

35	UNDERSTANDING PLATO David J. Melling Oxford University Press, New York, 1987

36	HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Josef Maria Eder, Translated by Edward Epstean Columbia University Press, New York, 1945

37	ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY / ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF BEAUMONT NEWHALL Edited by Van Deren Coke University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1975

38	MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY (An Essay) Siegfried Zielinski Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany	Visit Media Archaeology Online

39	THE CAMERA OBSCURA / A CHRONICLE John H. Hammond Adam Hilger Limited, Bristol, 1981

40	MAGIC SHADOWS / THE STORY OF THE ORIGIN OF MOTION PICTURES Martin Quigley Jr. Biblo & Tannen, New York, 1948/60/69

41	THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY / FROM THE EARLIEST USE OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY UP TO 1914 Helmut and Alison Gernsheim Oxford University Press, London, 1955

42	COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHICA / THE IMAGES AND EQUIPMENT OF THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY George Gilbert Hawthorn & Dutton, New York, 1976

43	GALILEO IN CHINA / RELATIONS THROUGH THE ROMAN COLLEGE BETWEEN GALILEO AND THE JESUIT SCIENTIST-MISSIONARIES (1610-1640) Pasquale M. D'Elia, Translated by Suter and Sciascia Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1960

44	THE PICTURE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY / FROM THE EARLIEST BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY Peter Pollack Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1958

45	A MILLION AND ONE NIGHTS / A HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE THROUGH 1925 Terry Ramsaye Simon & Schuster, New York, 1926

46	THE WONDERS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Arno Press Literature Series, London, 1851 & 1973

47	ADVENTURES IN CYBERSOUND An Online Thesis Russell Naughton	Visit Adventures In Cybersound Online

48	THE FILM ENCYCLOPAEDIA Ephraim Katz Harper & Row, New York, 1990

49	A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY / A PRACTICAL GUIDE AND AN INTRODUCTION TO IT'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS W. Jerome Harrison Scovil, New York, 1887 Arno Press Literature of Photography Series, New York, 1973

50	NATURAL MAGICK Giovanni Battista Della Porta Edited and Produced by Scott Davis	Visit Natural Magick Online

51	THE CRAFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY David Vestal Harper & Row, London, 1972

52	OPTIC PROJECTION / PRINCIPLES, INSTALLATION AND USE OF THE MAGIC LANTERN, PROJECTION MICROSCOPE, REFLECTING LANTERN, MOVING PICTURE MACHINE Simon Henry Gage & Henry Phelps Gage Comstock Publishing, New York, 1914

53	SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA Joseph Needham Cambridge University Press, London, Volume 4, Part 1 Physics, 1962

54	JOSEPH NEEDHAM HOME PAGE / The Science and Civilization in China Project Maintained by Christopher Cullen	Visit Joseph Needham Online

55	FLIPBOOK ANIMATION AND OTHER WAYS TO MAKE CARTOONS MOVE Patrick Jenkins Kids Can Press, Toronto, 1991

56	THE HOLE THING / PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY Jim Schull Morgan & Morgan, New York, 1974

57	FESTIVALS IN CHINA Derk Bodde Princeton, 1975

58	CORNELIUS DREBBEL G. Tierie H.J. Paris, Amsterdam, 1932

59	THE 'VIEW OF DELFT' BY JOHANNES VERMEER, A GUIDED ART HISTORY TOUR THROUGH THIS PAINTING By Kees Kaldenbach, Art Historian	Visit Kees Kaldenbach Online

60	PERSPECTIVE, OPTICS AND DELFT ARTISTS AROUND 1650 A.K. Wheelock Jr. Garland, New York, 1978

61	OPTICS, PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY M. H. Pirenne Cambridge University Press, London, 1970

62	NATURAL MAGICK John Wright (Publisher), London, 1669

63	NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA General J. Waterhouse The Photographic Journal, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, London, Volume XXV, May 31 1901, pp270-290

64	BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC ASTRONOMERS David Abbott Peter Bedrick Books, New York, 1984

65	THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY John Werge Piper & Carter, London, 1890

66	DATES AND SOURCES / A CHRONOLOGY OF PRE-CINEMA HISTORY F.S. (Paul) Liesegang Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, London, 1986

67	PICTURE RIBBONS C.F. Jenkins (Publisher) Washington, 1897

68	CONCISE UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY Sir J.A. Hammerton Amalgamated Press N.D., (year)

69	GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE Philip Lenard G. Bell and Sons, 1933

70	HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS David Eugene Smith Ginn & Cpo., 1951

71	THE MAGICIAN AND THE CAMERA Erik Barnouw Oxford University Press, New York, 1981

72	CHINA: A HISTORY IN ART Bradley Smith Harper & Row, New York, 1973

73	THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA / MACRO & MICRO EDITIONS Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., Chicago, 1990

74	HISTORY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF LIGHT, VISION AND COLOURS Joseph Priestley London, J. Johnson, 1772

75	DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY (idem) SCHEINER, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SUNSPOTS William R. Shea (1970)

76	ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY Aaron Scharf Penguin Press, London, 1968

77	THE OLD GREENWICH OBSERVATORY CAMERA OBSCURA, GREENWICH, LONDON Jack and Beverly Wilgus The Magic Mirror of Life; An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura, Bright Bytes Studio	Visit Bright Bytes Studio Online

78	MENG HSI PI-Tâ€™AN (DREAM CREEK ESSAYS) Shen Kua, Passages On The Inversion Of The Shadow, 1088

79	MO-TZU, HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE SINOLOGICAL INDEX SERIES TEXT Items 44-49 Harvard Yenching Institute	Harvard Yenching Institute

80	ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Britannica Online	Visit EB Online

81	MOVEMENT IN TWO DIMENSIONS Olive Cook Hutchinson & Company, London, 1963

82	MUYBRIDGE - TELLING STORIES Visible Human Project, University of Colorado

83	A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUTOMATONS Visible Human Project, University of Colorado

84	THE GREAT IDEA FINDER / Inventor Profiles Vaunt Design Group, 1997-1999	Visit The Great Idea Finder Online

85	VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNIQUES DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY: Some examples as seen in contemporary experiments AND WEYNANTS, Early Visual Media / Pre Cinema / The Ghost in the Theatre: Pepper's Ghost Effect Thomas Weynants	Visit Thomas Weynants Online

86	THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GHOST John Henry Pepper, 1890

87	THE MEDIA EVOLUTIONS Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. Department Of Communication, North Carolina State University, February, 1995	NCSU

88	BEHIND THE SCREEN Kenneth MacGowan Dell Publishing, New York, 1965

89	EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE: Father of the Motion Picture Gordon Hendricks

90	LIVING PICTURES: The Origins of the Movies Deac Rossell SUNY Press, Albany NY, 1998

91	THE HISTORY OF MOVIE PHOTOGRAPHY Brian Coe New York Zoetrope Inc., Westfield NJ, 1981

92	PICTURING TIME: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) Marta Braun University of Chicago Press, London, 1992

93	PEARSON EDUCATION (infoplease) Almanac Ancient History/World History	Visit infoplease.com

94	LUIKERWAAL Dutch Magic Lantern Site Henc R.A. de Roo Huizen, the Netherlands	Visit Luikerwaal (english)

95	NEATORAMA THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/29/the-wonderful-world-of-early-photography/	Neatorama

96	WORLDISROUND The Oldest Color Photograph – 1872 Eric Wells http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html	Visit Worldisround

97	MUYBRIDGE AND THE CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHERS Brian Coe MOMI / British Film Institute, London, 1992

98	ALBERT LONDE: L’IMAGE MULTIPLE Bernard Denis and André Gunthert,: La Recherche Photographique 34 (May 1988): 7-15

99	THE GREAT ART OF LIGHT AND SHADOW: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CINEMA Laurent Mannoni / Richard Crangle University of Exeter (Exeter Studies in Film History), 2000

100	LE GRAND ART DE LA LUMIERE ET DE L'OMBRE Laurent Mannoni Paris, Nathan, 1994

101	THE PROJECTION BOX Stephen Herbert, Specialist Author, History Of Audio-Visual Media http://stephenherbert.co.uk/index2.htm	Go To The Projection Box

102	WHO'S WHO OF VICTORIAN CINEMA British Film Institute Edited by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan http://www.victorian-cinema.net	Visit The Site

103	THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY GUIDE TO THE CASED PHOTOGRAPH FILE, (1840-ONGOING) New York University Libraries, Publisher, Processed By Cara McCormick	NYHS Visit 'Finding Aids' At The NYHS

104	A TREASURY OF WITCHCRAFT: A SOURCEBOOK OF THE MAGIC ARTS Harry E. Wedeck Gramercy Books, Avenel, New Jersey, 1961

105	THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL Pierre G. Harmant And Paul Marillier London: RPS, April 1967, Vol. 107 (4), 130–40

106	THE KING OF THE MOVIES Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin, By Joseph P. Eckhardt, Professor of History Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Philadelphia, PA	Visit Eckhardt's Lubin Site

107	LIVING PICTURES: THEIR HISTORY, PHOTO-PRODUCTION AND PRACTICAL WORKING Henry Vaux Hopwood , London, 1899, and HOPWOOD'S LIVING PICTURES R.B. Foster, 1915

108	UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS School Of Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematical Institute North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife Scotland	University of St Andrews

109	THE EXCITING HOBBY OF COLLECTING CINEMATOGRAPHICA & MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF FILM SIZES
	Michael Rogge, Collector & Historian	Collecting Cinematographica
	Netherlands	100 Years of Film Sizes

110	PALEO CAMERA, THE START OF ART, EXCERPTS FROM THE CAMERA OBSCURA AND THE ORIGIN OF ART: THE CASE FOR IMAGE PROJECTION IN THE PALEOLITHIC Matt Gatton, First Lecture October 6, 2005, University Of Louisville	Visit PALEO CAMERA Online Here

111	UNDERSTANDING HUMAN MOTION: A HISTORIC REVIEW By Reinhard Klette And Garry Tee Computer Science Department, The University Of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand	Department Of Mathematics

112	THE FIRST AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE PROJECTOR By Larry Brian Radka The Einhorn Press

113	TRAJAN'S COLUMN: A RECORD OF THE DACIAN CAMPAIGN AND A MONUMENT TO LOGISTICS William P. Thayer UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

114	THE WEB CHRONOLOGY PROJECT, WORLD HISTORY CHRONOLOGY Altamira Cave Paintings Edited By Sarah D. Nietering, Researched By Susan J. Blauwkamp, Written By Matthew S. Johnson, 1996	WEB CHRONOLOGY PROJECT

115	HIGHBEAM ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE, EGYPTIAN ART Extracted From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2008 Referencing The Works Of: W. S. Smith, Art And Architecture Of Ancient Egypt (1958); W. C. Hayes, The Scepter Of Egypt (2 Vol., 1959-60); K. Lange And M. Hirmer, Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting In Three Thousand Years (4th Ed., Tr. 1968); J. S. Curl, The Egyptian Revival (1982); L. Karnouk, Modern Egyptian Art (1987)

116	MYRIORAMA, A COLLECTION OF MANY HUNDRED LANDSCAPES Designed By Mr. John Clark, London Published By Samuel Leigh, 1824

117	AN ESSAY FOR THE CATALOGUE THE GRAND MOVING PANORAMA OF PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Kevin J. Avery, Ph.D. Exhibition At The Montclair Art Museum, 1999 (ISBN 0-936489-57-X)


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