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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. Binoculars - Wikipedia

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   Binoculars concentrate the light gathered by the objective into a beam, of which the diameter, the exit pupil, is the objective diameter divided by the magnifying power. For maximum effective light-gathering and brightest image, and to maximize the sharpness, [27] the exit pupil should at least equal the diameter of the pupil of the human eye ...

4. Monocle - Wikipedia

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   The dandy's quizzing glass of the 1790s was an article of high fashion, [1] which differs from the monocle in being held to one's eye with a handle in a fashion similar to a lorgnette, rather than being held in place by the eye socket itself.

5. Dome magnifier - Wikipedia

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   A dome magnifier is a dome-shaped magnifying device made of glass or acrylic plastic, used to enlarge words on a page or computer screen. They are plano-convex lenses : the flat (planar) surface is placed on the object to be magnified, and the convex (dome) surface provides the enlargement.

6. Magnification - Wikipedia

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   The maximum angular magnification (compared to the naked eye) of a magnifying glass depends on how the glass and the object are held, relative to the eye. If the lens is held at a distance from the object such that its front focal point is on the object being viewed, the relaxed eye (focused to infinity) can view the image with angular ...

7. Reading stone - Wikipedia

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   Reading stone in Archeon, a historical theme park. A reading stone is an approximately hemispherical lens that can be placed over text to magnify the letters, making it easier for people with presbyopia to read. Reading stones were among the earliest common uses of lenses.