For hundreds of years, the principle behind the telescope has been as simple as it gets: build a lens or mirror to collect a large amount of light, focus that light onto a detector (like an eye, a ...

I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I shower and do my hair and makeup in front of a vanity mirror, then get dressed with the help of my full-length mirror. I have three mirrors in my ...

The technical definition of a telephoto lens is one with a focal length greater (or longer) than 50mm (on the 35mm/full frame forma), but the telephoto range is more generally accepted to begin at ...

MIRRORS have held a peculiar fascination for people ever since one of our early hominid ancestors looked at her reflection in a pool and noticed an uncanny correlation between her own muscle movements ...

I looked up from where I was dozing in the passenger seat of the car to a glorious blue sky that rested on top of a grey-green mountain range. My eyes trailed forwards across the skyline, then hit my ...

“The Mirror” is an amusing jewel of a book, a sparkling reflection of the history of the mirror in Europe and the role of the mirror in the European imagination. Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet moves elegantly ...