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How Mirrors Created the Concept of "Individuality" — and Nearly Killed Everyone Who Made Them
Before mirrors, you didn't know what you looked like.
Not really.
A reflection in still water, a polished piece of metal — that was the closest most humans ever came to seeing their own face.
Then Venetian glassmakers cracked the code. And changed what it meant to be human.
In this episode of Hidden History with Aiden Thomas, we trace the mirror from ancient obsidian discs through the secret island workshops of Murano — where craftsmen were forbidden to leave on pain of death — to the moment a private object reshaped art, identity, and the very idea of the self.
It wasn't a piece of glass. It…
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