Polish Science and Technology in Relation to the Invention of the Cinematograph and the Formation of Modern Film
Polish Science and Technology in Relation to the Invention of the Cinematograph and the Formation of Modern Film

Summary/Abstract: In his research, Jewsiewicki was interested in the relationsbetween technology, science, and art. In the following text,the author looks for the origins of film inventions that grewout of the eternal human desire to capture life in movingimages. Jewsiewicki reaches back to the 13th century and fo-cuses on the optical devices of that time paying particularattention to the traces of inventions in Poland. He recallsVitello (a Silesian monk, physicist, philosopher, research-ing optical and light phenomena in the context of visualillusions and the psychology of vision) as well as NicolausCopernicus. Jewsiewicki also mentions, among others, JanHeweliusz and Christopher Scheiner, the astronomer as-sociated with the city of Nysa, as well as Aleksy Sylvius –a designer of astronomical devices. Jewsiewicki writesabout magic lanterns and Chinese shadows, as well as cam-eras for creating moving photographs. However, the articlechiefly focuses on Kazimierz Prószyński, Jan Szczepanikand Władysław Starewicz, who, in Jewsiewicki’s opinion,significantly influenced the technical development of cin-ema.

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