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Nimrud Lens Research Paper

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• 710 BC
• Nimrud lens
• The Nimrud lens – a piece of rock crystal – may have been used as a magnifying glass or as a burning-glass to start fires by concentrating sunlight.

• 1000 AD
• Reading stone
• The first vision aid, called a reading stone, is invented. It is a glass sphere placed on top of text, which it magnifies to aid readability.

• 1021 AD
• Book of Optics
• Muslim scholar Ibn al-Haytham writes hisBook of Optics. It eventually transforms how light and vision are understood.

• 1284 AD
• First eye glasses
• Salvino D’Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses.

• 1590 AD
• Early microscope
• Zacharias Janssen and his father Hans place multiple lenses in a tube. They observe that viewed objects in front of

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