"Good Question Matt". Said the table.
Well, it is to the sea that one must turn to discover the reckoning of Hooke and his momentous discovery of magnification through eliptical concave surfaces.
Hooke was on the English Kings ship returning from treaty talks with the King of France, one of the Louis' no less. He spied a strange pot of soup and noted how it was as clear and tasteless as water. Later, he would find that it was in fact water.
Looking into the bowl as it shifted up and down with the waves, yielded varying intensities of magnification. Hooke reversed his thinking and imagined an inverted plate. On that very day, a set of rough sketches were developed in a cabin boys locker room for what would become the reflecting mirror, that you all so enjoy.
