Если бы где-нибудь в Британском музее была уютная комнатка не больше чем с двадцатью экспонатами, с хорошим освещением, удобными креслами и табличкой, приглашающей закурить, думаю, я бы не выходил из музея.
The mind of man will never be able to contemplate the being, perfections, and providence of God without meeting with inexplicable difficulties.
From the writings of Alhazen and these observations and experiments of Bacon together, it is not improbable that some monks gradually hit upon the construction of spectacles
The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper.
It is certain that spectacles were well known in the 13th century, and not long before. …It would certainly have been a great satisfaction to us to have been able to trace the actual steps in the progress of this most useful invention, without which most persons who have a taste for reading must have had the melancholy prospect of passing a very dull and joyless old age; and must have been deprived of the pleasure of entertaining themselves by conversing with the absent and the dead, when they were no longer capable of acting their part among the living.
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