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Islamic opticians, mainly Alhazen, who was in his turn influenced by Ibn Sahl's 10th century writings about optics.

Roger Bacon further investigated the properties of the magnifying-glass after he had read those and other writings.

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The earliest evidence of "a magnifying device, a convex lens forming a magnified image" was

Aristophanes's "lens", from 424 BC, a glass globe filled with water. (

Seneca wrote that it could be used to read letters "no matter how small or dim").

Roger Bacon described the properties of a magnifying glass in 13th-century

England.

Eyeglasses were developed in 13th-century

Italy.

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Seneca the tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero invented the Magnifying glass in 424 BC.

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Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250

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It was invented for people to make tiny objects appear larger than the original .

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to magnify large and small object

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inveted in 1824

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Who made the magnifying glass

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