Appendix G: Photography Timeline
| Image Technologies and Processes | Photography and Art | Culture and Current Affairs | |
| Circa (c.)400 BC | Chinese and Greek philosophers describethe basic principles of optics and the cameraobscura | Ancient Greek art and architecture(c. 1000 BC –1 AD) | Beginning of Greek philosophy; Socrates teaches ethicsand a method of philosophical inquiry based on discourse;Plato develops Socrates' work and Plato's pupil Aristotleestablishes an empirical approach to science |
| c. 1–500 AD | Roman art | Roman Empire | |
| c. 700 | Wood block printing in China | Byzantine art (c. 300–c.1400 AD) | Moors conquer Spain (711) |
| c. 1000 | Paper first manufactured in EuropePrinciple of the camera obscura described indetail | Romanesque art (800–1100 ... |
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