multiplying glass

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.

   “It may have one side, which must be convex, ground into little facets, like those of some jewels, while the other side is plain. Children know it by the name of a multiplying glass […]”

2. isim A magnifying glass.

   “Will he forgive that dim sight which I have of sin now, when sins scarce appeare to be sins unto me, and will he forgive that over-quick sight, when I shall see my sins through Satans multiplying glasse of desperation, when I shall thinke them greater then his mercy, upon my death bed?”