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Pharos Island - Alexandria
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Construction of the Pharos Lighthouse began around 290 b.c.e., but Ptolemy I Sotor died before the tower was completed. ... Pliny the Elder said that the fire was intensified by means of a mammoth mirror that reflected the light a great distance, ...
But this is what stories of the Lighthouse say. Ancient travelers told stories of a massive mirror and a huge lens. It is believed the mirror was made of polished bronze. It reflected the light from the fire, making a beam of light that shone out from ...
'“Thousands of years ago, the tallest lighthouse of all time was built in Egypt on an island called Pharos. A giant skyscraper, more than a hundred and thirty metres tall, it guided sailors into the great harbour of Alexandria. The building was a ...
LIGHTHOUSE. OF. ALEXANDRIA. A good example of an apparently accurate drawing based on personal observation ... On the top was a mirror of Chinese iron of seven cubits wide (364 cm) used to watch the movement of ships on the other ...
The light from the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria, reflected by mirrors, could almost certainly have been seen up to thirty miles out to sea. Some even claimed that the light was so powerful, it could even set boats afire from that distance, ...
Leonard George Carr Laughton, ‎Roger Charles Anderson, ‎William Gordon Perrin - 1996 - ‎Vista de fragmentos - ‎
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