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2000 year old optical problem solved.

2000 year old optical problem solved.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-08-physicists-year-old-optical-problem.html

They say the problem originated 2000 years ago with lenses of the day but I did not know they existed at all that far back. I thought the first corrective lenses were made only 1300 years later, glasses.

Well, here is a short history of optics, I guess they go back a lot further than I imagined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_optics

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