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Ancient Knowledge of Magnifying Glasses

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 46.

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Ancient Knowledge of Magnifying Glasses

In the writings of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, the following passage occurs: "As we use a glass to examine the forms of things, so must we study antiquity in order to understand the present." This sentence points most unmistakably to the use of magnifying glasses long before the time of the writer, who died 474 years before our era.