LXXX.

Looking-glasses. Specularia.

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_Looking-glasses_, 1. are provided that Men may see themselves. _Specularia_, 1. parantur, ut homines intueantur seipsos.

_Spectacles_, 2. that he may see better, who hath a weak sight. _Perspicilla_, 2. ut cernat acius qui habet visum debilem.

Things afar off are seen in a _Perspective Glass_, 3. as things near at hand. Remota videntur per _telescopium_, 3. ut proxima.

A _Flea_ appeareth in a _muliplying-glass_, 4. like a little hog. _Pulex_, 4. in _Microscopio_ apparet ut porcellus.

The Rays of the Sun, burn wood through a _Burning-glass_, 5. Radii Solis accendunt ligna per _Vitrum urens_, 5.