Perhaps the most common optical instrument in the world, mirrors have been used for millennia; artifacts made of polished obsidian dating back 7,500 years have been found in Turkey. The earliest man-made mirrors, which were constructed of highly buffed...

Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the czar won’t see his face. (Russian) Everyone sees his best friend in the mirror. (Yiddish) Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. (American) The best mirror is an old friend....

MIRRORS. Object and symbol, instrument of knowledge and type of reflection or speculation (the Latin word for mirror is speculum), means of visual perception and hallucination: there is scarcely a single culture that has not been interested in the...

A mirror is an object with a surface that has good specular reflection; that is, it is smooth enough to form an image. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or...

Looking at mirrors as decorative elements, try creating any number of "fairest of them all" additions to tables, nooks, and, yes, walls. Mirrors are inspirational. Writers throughout time have pondered their qualities. For instance, Chaucer used a mirror to make a point: "She...

Light and Sight Your eyes need light to see. When you see a reflection in a mirror, it is because light is "bouncing off" the mirror and into your eyes. Light reflects or "bounces off" of everything in all directions. Whether the light...

If you're Happy and you know it, pat your head. That, in a peanut shell, is how a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror _...

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