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A Historical View of Imaging Systems and Technology by Enders A. Robinson is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Historical View of Imaging Systems and Technology about?
When approached from a historical viewpoint the development of many important imaging systems throughout history often share common ground. Extremely important was the development of the idea of mathematical projection which provides methods for making an image that conformally represents the object. The prime example is the discovery of the stereographic projection by Hipparchus of Nicaea in the second century BC. The stereographic projection provided the basis for the astrolabe, an astronomical device that acted both as an instrument of observation and as an analog computer. The stereographic projection and similar ones also provided the basis for the world maps of the ancients which utilized a grid of longitude and latitude. When the ancient Greek books were rediscovered in the Renaissance, the maps provided the impetus for the age of exploration. The Mercator projection of the sixteenth century was obtained as a logarithmic transformation of the stereographic projection. The Mercator projection provided sea captains with maps that had a rectangular grid of latitude and longitude and also had the property that straight lines represented courses of constant compass directions. Th
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Enders A. Robinson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0899-9457)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781850010104
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)