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Recreating The "Burning Glass"

In this video I do my best to recreate a "Burning Glass" in the style of Joseph Priestley's from 1774. while I do this we talk about the long history of the tool, and finally test the glass by attempting to reproduce some alchemical processes such lenses may have been turned to in the past. Sources: (Contemperary) Dr. Principe lecture on Fransiscan Science:    • "Scientific Innovation and Franciscan...   Adrienne Mayor 'Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world' https://press.princeton.edu/books/pap... (Primary) Aristophenes the clouds: http://www.faenumpublishing.com/uploa... Plutarch life of numa: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Polybius account of the siege of syracuse https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Livy history of rome book 24 https://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Texts/l... Plutarch life of marcellus https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... Cassius dio roman history https://archive.org/details/DioCassiu... Roger Bacon Opus Majus https://archive.org/details/opusmajus... Della Porta Natural Magic 1658 English edition: https://archive.org/details/naturalma... Galen on temperments https://www.amazon.com/Galen-Mixtures... (this is not an affiliate link) Priestley 'Observations and Experiments on Different Kinds of Air' https://www.loc.gov/item/15006259/