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Both oil lamps and candle lanterns are known from antiquity, but the oldest oil lanterns I'm familiar with are from the early modern period. Did it really take that long for people to have the idea of enclosing an oil lamp as they might a candle? If so, why?

by /u/LibraryLass in /r/AskHistorians

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