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a humble lens that promises everything is bigger if you simply pay attention
means A lens or instrument that makes objects appear larger than they really are, helping you see fine detail.
from From the Latin 'magnificare,' to make great or enlarge — built from 'magnus,' great, plus '-ficare,' to make (a cousin of 'magnify,' 'magnificent,' and 'magnitude'). The '-er' ending is the plain English agent suffix, marking the thing that does the magnifying.
- fire risk
- Can ignite paper by focusing sunlight to a point
- ancient tech
- Romans used glass globes to magnify centuries ago
- insect trick
- Mantises were studied through early hand lenses
- reading aid
- Most-bought tool by people fighting tiny print
- name origin
- From Latin magnus, meaning great or large
for instance
loupe jeweler's magnifier — 10x or 20x magnification device used by diamond graders in antwerp since the 1800s