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The text and the lecture both discuss same topic, but present it from two different perspectives. The author of the reading discusses the burning mirror, which was a weapon of the Greek used against the Roman navy. Despite she gives three points why she disbelieved the story of burning mirror, the lecturer casts doubt on that points. Firstly, the reading provides that the ancient Greeks ' did not have advanced technologies and it is hard to believe they made a very advanced burning mirror, which demands very precise parabolic curvature also a large sheet of copper. On the other hand, the lecturer disproves this point, and she further says a burning mirror actually possible to form many pieces of bronze sheets, also ancient Greeks ability to

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