Throughout Human History, scores of cultures, from ancient Egyptians and Greeks to sun-worshipping Aztecs, have revered it, worshipped it, even deified it. But the sun's powers have also been put to work-and not just recently, but for nearly three millennia. As early as the 7th century B.C., mankind was making fire by concentrating sunlight through glass. In the 1700s, humans made solar ovens to cook food. And a century or so later, French physicist A. E. Becquerel discovered the phenomenon behind making electricity from the sun, called photovoltaics.
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机译：在整个人类历史中，从古代埃及人和希腊人到崇拜太阳的阿兹台克人，数十种文化都崇敬，崇拜，甚至神化了它。但是，太阳的力量也已经发挥作用-不仅是最近，而且已经使用了近三千年。早在公元前7世纪，人类就通过将阳光聚集在玻璃上来生火。在1700年代，人类制造了太阳能烤箱来烹饪食物。大约一个世纪后，法国物理学家贝克勒尔（A. E. Becquerel）发现了由太阳发电的现象，即所谓的光伏发电。
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