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  2. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

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    A pen seen through a magnifying glass Jim Hutton as detective Ellery Queen, posing with a magnifying glass. A magnifying glass is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle. Beyond its primary function of magnification, this simple yet ingenious tool serves a ...

  3. Grandma's Reading Glass - Wikipedia

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    Grandma's Reading Glass is a 1900 British silent trick film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a young boy who borrows a huge magnifying glass to focus on various objects. The film was shot to demonstrate the new technique of close-up .

  4. Coddington magnifier - Wikipedia

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    The cross-section through the optical axis shows the grooves that limit the aberration. A Coddington magnifier is a magnifying glass consisting of a single very thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, thus limiting the rays to those close to the axis, which minimizes spherical aberration.

  5. Lens - Wikipedia

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    This is exactly what the eye does when looking through a magnifying glass. The magnifying glass creates a (magnified) virtual image behind the magnifying glass, but those rays are then re-imaged by the lens of the eye to create a real image on the retina.

  6. Magnifier - Wikipedia

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    Magnifying glass, an optical device for magnification; Screen magnifier, software that magnifies part of a computer screen Magnifier (Windows), a screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows; Magnifier (iOS), a magnifying glass app for iOS; Magnifier, a magnifying glass app for Android; Magnifying transmitter, alternate version of a Tesla Coil

  7. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    The postage stamp appears larger with the use of a magnifying glass. Stepwise magnification by 6% per frame into a 39-megapixel image. In the final frame, at about 170x, an image of a bystander is seen reflected in the man's cornea. Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something.

  8. Thru the Mirror - Wikipedia

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    Thru the Mirror is a 1936 American animated short film directed by David Hand from a story by William Cottrell and Joe Grant.In this cartoon short, Mickey Mouse has a Through the Looking-Glass-parody-like dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive.

  9. Micrographia - Wikipedia

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    Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses. It was the first book to include illustrations of insects and plants as seen through microscopes.