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Haro Hans Roggenbuck... etc.

I was searching for the history of glass dip pens and came up with conflicting results. Some say it was invented in Murano in the 1500s, but I don't believe that as there is no record or artefacts of anything like that existing before the 1900s, and nothing before the 2000s that supports this idea. Yoseka Stationery makes that same claim but they say it happened in the 17th century, and several people say Yoseka pulled the story out of their ass.

Other people cite glass pens made in England in the mid 1800s, but those are an entirely different invention of metal pens with glass bodies in the same vein as Napoleonic crystal pens which aren't made of solid crystal but have ferrules attached to crystal glass sticks.

I am more inclined to believe the twisted glass dip pen was invented by a Japanese chime maker in 1902 which would line up with the timeline much better as that is when we see the twisted glass design enter popular use by Western manufacturers. Is there more information surrounding these that can be ascertained?

I was searching for the history of glass dip pens and came up with conflicting results. Some say it was invented in Murano in the 1500s, but I don't believe that as there is no record of anything like that existing before the 1900s, and nothing before the 2000s that supports this idea. Yoseka Stationery makes that same claim but they say it happened in the 17th century, and several people say Yoseka pulled the story out of their ass.

Other people cite glass pens made in England in the mid 1800s, but those are an entirely different invention of metal pens with glass bodies in the same vein as Napoleonic crystal pens which aren't made of solid crystal but have ferrules attached to crystal bodies.

I am more inclined to believe the twisted glass dip pen was invented by a Japanese chime maker in 1902 which would line up with the timeline much better as that is when we see the twisted glass design enter popular use by Western manufacturers. Is there more information that can be ascertained?

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I read this poem from William Chinnery and looked up this use of smart. After looking it up on Wiktionary it left me wondering how smart changed meanings from painfulness to intelligence as the meanings seem so far apart. Thanks!

I was reading some texts from the 1600s when they had just discovered that the Moon wasn’t made of water but land. Some questions were proposed about alien life: if aliens on the Moon were cursed with Adam’s original sin, if there was an alien Adam of the Moon, and if the aliens on the Moon would think that Earth was the Moon. The first two are obviously nonsensical but the last one really intrigued me. Unless there are some Moon theologians that can answer the other two. Thanks!