PLAGIARISTS BY ANTICIPATION Johann KEPLER (1571-1630) CONSTRAINT : to draw Upper Austria in 1620 non tanquam Pictor sed tanquam Mathematicus : ϕ without fixing the image (except by immediate manual stencilling) + camera obscura + 360° panorama (by rotation). INVENTION : “tabernaculum obscura in orbem ire”. (“Him and his bleedin’ windmill…” dixit Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Francis Bacon.) WORKS : “Pictographic” reproduction by the photographer of his own unfixed ϕ of Austria’s mountain relief.
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