@thomasfuchs I found "A Biography of the Pixel" by Alvy Ray Smith to be a fascinating history of the sampling theorem, photography, film animation, computers and, eventually, computer graphics.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542456/a-biography-of-the-pixel/

A blog post about the book and Smith at [ https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-true-history-of-the-pixel/ ]