stackyFACTSWhy use clear glass when you can polish a highly toxic chunk of metal? Early astronomers abandoned glass lenses for speculum, a brittle alloy of copper and tin that constantly tarnished, meaning they spent half their time aggressively polishing toxic mirrors instead of actually looking at the stars.
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