He developed an occhiolino or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens in 1609.
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Myopia can easily be corrected with a concave lens which causes the divergence of light rays before they reach the retina.
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The original Dutch telescopes were composed of a convex and a concave lens-telescopes that are constructed this way do not invert the image.
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In 1817 Carl Friedrich Gauss improved the Fraunhofertelescope objective by adding a meniscus lens to its single convex and concave lens design.
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This material is thought to defy the laws of physics, allowing objects to appear exactly as they are rather than upside down as seen in a normal convex or concave lens.
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The appearance is similar to a single-arch dam but with a distinct vertical curvature to it as well lending it the vague appearance of a concave lens as viewed from downstream.
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The current can even reverse the curvature of the lens from convex to concave.
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Galileo's telescope used Hans Lippershey's design of a convex objective lens and a concave eye lens and this design has come to be called a Galilean telescope.
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A lens with one convex and one concave side is convex-concave or meniscus.