I’m fascinated by spectacles because I’m a consumer of the product. I’ve worn them from a young age and they’re an indelible part of who I am. I’ve always liked them. My dad wore glasses too, and I remember for family photos he’d take them off whereas I’d put mine on. What amazes me is that although over two in three need spectacles, very few people know the story of them.
what were you thinking? The writer clearly knows nothing of the history of science. Spectacles were in manufactured use by the end of 13C and imaging properties of refracting ‘perspicuua’ discussed by Grosseteste in the 1220s (in the De Iride)
If you paid for this article to be written, you should be asking for your money back and pay a historian of science for a true history of glasses.
I couldn’t understand *at all* what compelled the author to write “pissed” and “shit” in article about specs. The words grate terribly.
Wow. Not only does this article misses the first like 400 years of the history of spectacles (look up Giordano da Pisa). Even in London the Company of spectacle makers was founded 1626. ... also the claim that Newton 'paved the way' for microscopes (which predate the Optics) ...