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		mtdewcmu on Dec 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons ... Could there have been glass lenses over the holes and it was a kind of microscope? Here's my guess: it's a magnifier to examine coins.

vidarh on Dec 29, 2021 [–]

While the principle of a lens was known, I don't think any glass lenses of that age has been found.

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