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Why can we see virtual images?

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The lense of the eye is converging, and it has a doubly convex surface. Virtual images are formed at points where light rays appear to have converged. This usually means that the lense is a diverging lense, but it can also happen when the object being imaged is inside the focal length of the lense
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