"I’m reminded that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tourists would travel around with hand-held, slightly convex mirrors called Claude Glass. If you t

"I’m reminded that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tourists would travel around with hand-held, slightly convex mirrors called Claude Glass. If you turned yourself away from a beautiful landscape and looked instead at the landscape’s reflection in the Claude Glass, it was said to look more beautiful, like a painting. Thomas Gray wrote that only through the Claude Glass could he 'see the sun set in all its glory.'" (John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/episodes/anthropocene-reviewed-capacity-wonder-and-sunsets https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass