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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. 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.

  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. 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 .

  6. 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.

  7. Zograscope - Wikipedia

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    A zograscope makes a realistic experience for someone looking through it is by enhancing depth perception. One way is by minimizing other depth cues that specify the flatness and pictorial nature of the picture. The image is magnified, perhaps giving it a visual angle similar to the real scene the picture is depicting. The edges of the picture ...

  8. 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

  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.