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Who first invented the ancient mirror? Where was the earliest glass mirror born in the world?
A few days ago, I was chasing to the sky kingdom. I have read the original many times. I hate Xuan Nv every time I watch it, not to mention Xuan Nv posing in front of a bronze mirror in TV series. Talking about bronze mirrors all day. Bronze mirror? One day, I suddenly realized: No, this "Sansheng III" is about ancient times, when there were no bronze mirrors! So, who invented the ancient mirror first?

Who first invented the ancient mirror?

To talk about the history of the invention of this kind of mirror, we must first understand what it was like in ancient times. Look in the mirror? Yes

1. The legendary first mirror used by human beings

It is said that 5000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor tried to stop the tribe? Grab a marriage? Event, appointed Mo Mu as his fourth wife. When Mo Mu went up the mountain to dig a slate, he found a bright stone, which can reflect people's appearance. Since then, humans have learned to use mirrors.

Dr Gay enoch, another visual scientist, commented in 2006 that about 8,000 years ago, Anatolians (now Turks) made the world's earliest mirror from polished obsidian.

In ancient times, water was used as a mirror.

Ancient mirror, what's it called? Supervision? , usually made of tiles. Shuowen said:? Prison can get water from the bright moon because it can be used as a mirror. ?

In ancient times, bronze water was used as a mirror.

In the early years of Shang dynasty, the tile sword was replaced by bronze sword, and the tile sword was filled with water to show its capacity.

Step 4 start making up with bronze mirrors

Between 4000 BC and 3000 BC, then Mesopotamia (now called Iraq) and Egyptians made mirrors with polished copper for daily makeup.

In every period of ancient times, intelligent human beings used all kinds of reflective materials to comb their makeup, but at best, human beings can only do this? Mirror? Users of. If the inventor of ancient mirrors is nature. After all, enoch once said

:? A calm pool and a rock or clay container filled with water may be the earliest mirrors. ?

Where was the earliest glass mirror born in the world?

The first glass mirror was born in Venice, Italy, the kingdom of glass.

The earliest record of using glass mirrors was mentioned by Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer in the first century A.D., in his encyclopedia of natural history.

/kloc-At the beginning of the third century, the glass industry in Italy was very developed, and Venice was famous for its glass production. 13 17 years, venetian glassmakers added manganese dioxide to the trial production of colored glass and invented transparent glass. Then, they combined smooth metal with transparent glass to support the prototype of glass mirror.

1508, Italian glassworkers and D 'Carlo brothers pasted tin foil on the glass surface and then poured mercury on it, and successfully developed a very practical glass mirror.

1843, German scientists invented silver-plated glass mirrors; In the 1970s, scientists invented the aluminum mirror.

Bian Xiao's article should disappoint many friends, because in our impression, the mirror should be made in China. After all, many people in our culture talk about looking in the mirror, such as? Gu Ying felt sorry for himself. Yellow decal on the mirror? In fact, when it comes to the history of using mirrors in China, it is indeed much later than abroad. After Egyptian bronze mirrors were used 1000, China began to make bronze mirrors. As for glass mirrors, it was only for technical reasons that they became popular in China in recent centuries. But I can't say that the next generation of mirror technology innovation is in China ~