A Small Thing Which Changed The World

The lens is a clear object that has the ability to bend light. The lens type is the most common type of lens is convex and concave. However, who would have thought small objects named lens capable of changing the world with his ability.

The Invention of Spectacles between the East and the West, the paper reveals that Lutfallah scientists from various civilizations had known the lens before humans know the glasses. Roman civilization, Greece, Hellenistic and Islam have known long before popular eyewear lenses are used. In the course of civilization, scientists named the lenses as burning mirrors. It is based on the use of it in the lens to focus the light from the Sun in order to become a source of producing fire.

The lens is highly developed so rapidly. So many scientists after applying the lens of civilization to a variety of technological advances. Some of the most popular spectacles, microscopes, telescopes, magnifiers and etc. But where relation the ability of the lens in the change the world ?

Who would have thought a computer that once was so large can be diminished with the ability of a convex lens in enlarging the shadow of a small object. So we can see the computer that used to be very big now we can carry and take it anywhere with ease.

In the health field, a tool called a microscope is able to zoom in an organism which name is the bacteria and help the medical analyses the types of disease suffered by patients.

Many more capabilities of the lens which is very influential in current technological advances. Here in lies the ability of the lens in changing the world and the science we feel today. A clear object that is able to deflect the light and have great influence to the world.