The Insect Kaleidoscope rules at The Good Store. It's impossibly cute. Like standard kaleidoscopes, it's a collection of glass, mirrors and paper shapes inside a tube. The difference is that this one has dragonflies, ants, butterflies, and spiders and bees. This particular kaleidoscope is an interesting brain test - strangely, many of our customers seldom see both the spiders and the bees on first viewing; they generally see one or the other. This is 15cm long and totally beguiling.
The word 'kaleidoscope' is from the Greek meaning 'watcher of beautiful forms'. Whilst the Greeks used forms of kaleidoscopes, they were first patented as we know them by Scottish science prodigy Sir David Brewster in 1817. He was admitted to university at twelve, when the rest of us are still trying to figure out how his invention works.
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