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The fairest of them all: mirrors take centre stage at Adam’s

[2.16.19]

Mirrors today are so commonplace we barely give their origins a second thought.

In 1999, in a discussion on Edge.org, Bill Gates – founder of the Microsoftcorporation – and his peers mused over the greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years.

Tor Norretranders, the Danish science writer, nominated the humble mirror, which he equated with the advent of clothing, manners and behaviour, noting that it gave us the first notion of self-consciousness.

The fairest of them all: mirrors take centre stage at Adam’s [1]

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The Irish Times [3]
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[ Sat. Feb. 16. 2019 ]

Mirrors today are so commonplace we barely give their origins a second thought.

In 1999, in a discussion on Edge.org, Bill Gates – founder of the Microsoftcorporation – and his peers mused over the greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years.

Tor Norretranders, the Danish science writer, nominated the humble mirror, which he equated with the advent of clothing, manners and behaviour, noting that it gave us the first notion of self-consciousness.

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[1] https://www.edge.org/news/the-fairest-of-them-all-mirrors-take-centre-stage-at-adam%E2%80%99s
[2] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-is-the-most-important-invention-in-the-past-two-thousand-years
[3] https://www.irishtimes.com
[4] https://bit.ly/2Ei45eh