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In these pages I shortly introduce how to learn photography as a formalized expression of art. Such view goes beyond the practicalities of how to photograph focusing on how to communicate a message giving shape to something new. Indeed, photography should be considered in its social, cultural and psychological significance to understand the medium's effects on our cognitive processes and social interpretations. History of the Art of Photography Although considered a modern invention, the principles and mechanics were known since the fifteenth century. For instance, Piero della Francesca employed a tool named camera obscura (pinhole image) for his studies on perspective; later, in 1637, Descartes studied human optics and scientifically documented the analogy with photography. However, such studies reflected the seventeenth-century revolution in philosophical and scientific thinking redefining communication and interpretation; for instance, the dualism between soul and body parallel...

The discovery of the underwater world Atlantis has been the topic of debate for  over 2,500 years  among philosophers, historians, and archaeologists. In 360 B.C., #Plato narrate in his #Timaeus that Kritias tells an account of Atlantis based on the witness of a priest during the visit of his ancestor Solon to Egypt. According to Plato, #Atlantis was protected by the god # Poseidon  who made his son Atlas king of this land. The  Atlanteans  grew powerful but suffered ethically; their great armies were able to conquer Africa as far as Egypt and Europe going as far as Italy. According to one theory, it was by a divine punishment that the “ continent-island ” sank; in one day and one night. Plato's characters refer to the story of Atlantis as "genuine history" and it being within "the realm of fact." On the other hand, the historian Strabo reports Plato's student Aristotle opinion of Atlantis as a creation to illustrate a point....