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> “Some of the details on this are only a half-millimeter big,” said Davis. “They’re incomprehensibly small.” pretty impressive given they didn't have magnifyi
by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> “Some of the details on this are only a half-millimeter big,” said Davis. “They’re incomprehensibly small.”
pretty impressive given they didn't have magnifying glasses in 1500 BCE. i guess the artisan had excellent vision.
- erikpukinskis 7y ago“a normal eye with regular vision and unaided by any other tools can see objects as small as about 0.1 millimeters.”
- coldtea 7y ago>i guess the artisan had excellent vision. Not being in front of a computer or mobile screen all day helped!
- thaumasiotes 7y agoBack in the mid-20th-century, they used to blame nearsightedness on reading in bed.
- stan_rogers 7y agoNearsightedness would actually help quite a bit with fine work like this. Before presbyopia took hold with me, I could easily focus on my own nose, while things started getting pretty blurry about three feet/one metre out. (These days, I have about a 10cm clear vision range uncorrected at an utterly useless distance, just at the limits of an arm's reach.)
- sgt101 7y agomaybe they did? glass working is pretty ancient.