honeybee lens

honeybee lens
a magnifying eyeglass lens designed to resemble the multifaceted eye of the honeybee. It consists of three or six small telescopes mounted in the upper portion of the spectacles and directed toward the center and right and left visual fields. Prisms are included to provide a continuous, unbroken magnified field of view.

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