Spectacles and the Victorians : measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity / Gemma Almond-Brown.

"This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and...

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Main Author: Almond-Brown, Gemma (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
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Call Number: GT2370.A46 2023
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