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 "An ingenious piece of machinery was contrived ... [it] ... drew up the particles of light to the moon and to the sun ... the rescued particles of light rose in a pillar of light, known as the column of glory, towards the moon ... [then they] ... were conducted from the moon to ... the paradise of light." From Mani and Manichaeism, Geo Widengren, 1965, p.55. |
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The Temple of Apollo
For astonishing accounts of Viking age lens discoveries on Gotland: see Schmidt O, Wilms K, Lingelbach B. The Visby Lenses. in Optometry and Vision Science Vol. 76, No 9, pp 624-630. Description in Swedish Description in German For possible accounts in English see: Ahlström, Otto "Swedish Vikings used Optical Lenses" in "The Optician" 1950; 459-469; and/or Enoch, Jay M. "Early lens use: lenses found in context with their original objects" in "Optometry and Vision Science", 1996, Vol.73:707-715. However, it seems that these lenses were not used for searching the sky. With thanks to John Larsson |
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