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burning glasses


Title Burning glasses
Caption This painting shows Pope Leo X using a magnifying glass to read the Bible. Burning glasses refer to magnifying lenses.
Source Raphael "Portrait of Pope Leo X with two cardinals", 1517
Date 1517
URL http://www.palacegallery.net/mirrors.htm
Creator Raphael
Type Painting
Origin Internet
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burning glasses

Additional Notes

Burning glasses – Listed among the amazing tools that the Native Americans don’t understand, this phrase means a lens for focusing light to cause combustion. - Matt