广州市周易研究会会长关炳辉在近日举行“东方学学术研究会上”指出,中国是世界上最早发明摄影术的国家,比西方人早几百年甚至一千年以上。中国在商代便可制作铜镜,这是最原始的“影像”仪器,比近代玻璃光学镜片的产生要早数千年。十三世纪的元代科学家赵友钦曾设计建造过一座 Guan Binghui, chairman of the Guangzhou Research Office of the Zhou Yi Institute, said at the Oriental Studies Conference recently that China is the first country in the world to invent photography. It is several hundred years earlier than the Westerners, and even more than a thousand years. In the Shang dynasty, China could produce bronze mirrors, which are the most primitive “imaging” instruments, thousands of years earlier than modern glass optical lenses. Zhao Yuanqin, a 13th-century Yuan Dynasty scientist, designed and built one