"reading stone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:",
          "text": "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.",
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        "A hemisphere of glass used as a magnifier when placed with its flat side against a surface with text."
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          "hemisphere",
          "hemisphere"
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          "glass",
          "glass"
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          "magnifier",
          "magnifier"
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