Mirror
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
mirrors · a mirror · glass · looking-glass · mirror · the mirror
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The reflective device (looking-glass) used throughout the passage as the primary experimental case for explaining the mechanics of the image doctrine, including depth, chirality reversal, and multiple/curved reflection.
Upon the right;
Now, in the glass
The left the right.
Alcibiades 1
A reflective object cited as the example of something by looking at which a viewer can see both it and himself, extended into the analogy of the eye's pupil.
Why, clearly, Socrates, mirrors and things of that sort.
And have you observed that the face of the person who looks into another’s eye is shown in the optic confronting him, as in a mirror, and we call this the pupil, for in a sort it is an image of the person looking?
Republic
The object Socrates proposes as the quickest way to 'create' images of all things, illustrating mere appearance versus reality.
You will speedily produce the sun and all the things in the sky, and speedily the earth and yourself and the other animals and implements and plants and all the objects of which we just now spoke.
De Cultu Feminarum
A device for self-viewing, cited as an instrument of vanity
if it had already been lawful for the mirror also to lie so far—would Eve, expelled from paradise, already dead, in my opinion, have coveted these things?
then to consult the mirror on every occasion, anxiously to inspect oneself—whereas, God being known, the will of pleasing being taken away through the occasion of luxury, all those things are refused as idle, as hostile to modesty.