History of Eyeglasses and Sunglasses. The inventor of the first spectacle lenses is unknown. Roman tragedian Seneca (4 BC -65AD) is said to have used a glass globe of water as a magnifier to read ''all the books of Rome''. It's been reported that monks in the middle ages used glass spheres as magnifying glasses to read.
exists and is an alternate of . The Planet Venus has the slowest rotation rate because one day there is longer than the year on Venus or longer than its revolution around the sun. The Planet Venus has the slowest rotation rate because one day there is longer than the year on Venus or longer than its revolution around the sun.
As a result, the rotation period of a planet which has a retrograde rotation is a negative number, as shown in the table for the three planets which have such a rotation. Keep in mind that even though some planets have retrograde ROTATION, they ALL orbit or REVOLVE around the Sun in the same direction.