The Science of Pinhole Glases
Hi There,
Pinhole technology is not a new discovery – far from it. As far back as the 5th Century BC, the ancient Chinese people discovered that light passing through a tiny pinhole makes an image on the background it falls upon. Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, expanded on this, laying down the principle of pinhole imagery.
The first real application of pinholes came over 1,000 years later when Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), used the principle to invent the pinhole