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Burning mirror

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a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
- Weale.

See also: Burning



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Because of this, the Mohist philosopher was able to contribute to the development of the pinhole camera and the Burning Mirrors used by the ancient Mohists.
One of these notebooks, titled A Burning Mirror = Memoirs, begins as a surreal jailhouse interrogation, a futuristic scenario in which "B/403" has been detained for violating the fictive "Publishing Act of 1990" (68).
In On Burning Mirrors, 1992, a fluid design that seems half art-nouveau and half Mayan is superimposed on a gray and turquoise ground like shot silk.
 
 
 
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