2024 Author: Brian Parson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:02
Mirror, mirror, tell her… the stepmother asks in the story about Snow White.
The mirror is an accessory that no self-respecting modern babe can do without.
But centuries passed before the pocket format of the reflective glass, which is an integral part of the equipment in the handbag, was reached…
Humans are among the few mammals in nature that can recognize themselves in a mirror, along with several species of monkeys, dolphins and elephants.
For centuries, magicians and prophets have argued that looking in a mirror they see things inaccessible to mortals.
Ancient knowledge has shown that mirrors are channels of energy flows.
It is no coincidence that today there are ways of divination, when the mirrors are placed in front of each other to make a corridor of reflections in both directions.
Mystical people from all over the world stare at reflective objects - mirrors, oil, water, crystal balls, knives. They fell into something like a trance.
This practice dates back to ancient Egypt, is part of Greek mythology, and goes through Roman sorcerers and medieval magicians.
There is a certain superstition that if you break a mirror you are doomed to 7 years of bad luck.
In Greek mythology, the mathematician Archimedes invented a huge mirror that pointed at the sun and burned Roman warships during the attack on Syracuse in 212 BC.
Narcissus, on the other hand, stared at the water and did not realize that he saw his reflection and unwittingly assumed that he had fallen in love with himself.
And we come to the Brothers Grimm's tale of an evil queen who consulted a magic mirror to find out who is the most beautiful woman in the world.
The first mirrors were created in ancient Egypt. They were made of metal sheets that were perfectly polished. Most often they were oval in shape.
The Romans were the first to make mirrors out of glass and a metal layer placed on the back. Lead mirrors have also been found in Roman tombs from the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
In the 14th century, mirrors began to be made by expanding glass. After squeezing, the glasses were cut into pieces. But these mirrors have not yet had a perfect reflection.
The method of firing a layer of glass with a thin layer of reflective metal became widespread during the Renaissance. For the first time, this technology was used to produce mirrors on the Italian island of Murano near Venice.
Then in the history of mankind was marked the first act of industrial espionage. King Louis XIV bribed a specialist from the island to come to Paris.
The chemical process of covering glass with silver was discovered in the 19th century. This discovery marked the beginning of modern production of mirrors.
Technically, this method was discovered in Germany by Justus von Liebig in 1835.
Nowadays, mirrors are made of thin layers of molten aluminum or silver on a glass plate in a vacuum.
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