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“The morning of November 16, 1880, Wilhelm Friedrich K\u00fchne (1837\u20131900), a professor of physiology at the University of Heidelberg, dissected the head of an executed murderer in his dark room within minutes of the man\u2019s death. K\u00fchne worked around the contracting muscles in the left eye socket to remove the eye and develop an image from the retina of the last thing this man saw.”(1)<\/p>\n
According to Douglas Lanska in \u201cOptograms and Criminology: Science, News Reporting, and Fanciful Novels<\/a>,\u201d (from Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical and Literary Connections<\/a><\/em>) K\u00fchne equated \u201cvision to a repetitive photographic process\u201d and he considered the eyes to be \u201cwhole photographic workshop.\u201d1<\/sup> He believed it was possible to develop images, like photographs, from the eyes of the dead. K\u00fchne called the image fixed on the corpse\u2019s retina an optogram<\/a>, and the process of developing this image optography<\/a>. If his experiment on the murderer\u2019s head was successful, then optopgrahy had the potential of revolutionizing\u00a0the investigation of violent crime.<\/p>\n