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Old War Gun Tale and Microscope Origins
An odd narrative blends a rustic scene of a man using an old war gun for dinner with a child’s quip and a boy’s toy siege. It shifts to a denser discussion of the origin of the microscope, noting ancient glass lenses unearthed at Nineveh, and tracing developments through Seneca, Plutarch, and medieval Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fes
Hoffrunn House
Uable
Chance
Philadelphia Press
Lee
Falls of the Potomac
Richmond
Hillie
Billie
Siena
Tesrarch
Lasan
Nineveh
Huntieh
Ae Seneca
Plutarch
Tmosepa
Winges
Oxford
Arkansaw
Fam Feandacn
Sam
Sen
Thie
Globe Trotters
Tome
San Francisco
Aspinwall
Europe
York
Boston
Ferancaca
Hector Tun
Urey
Abe
Potachorch
Nepal
Yosemite Falls
Chicago
White House