1623 DAZA DE VALDÉS, Benito (1591 – 1634)
Uso del los antojos para todo genero de vistas, en que se enseña a conocer los grados que a cada uno le faltan de su vista, y los que tienen qualesquier antojos.
The earliest scientific work dealing with spectacles. It includes sight testing tables and points out the value of convex lenses after cataract operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Eng…
GMN 5821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7039
1738 MANNI, Domenico Maria (1690 – 1788)
Degli occhiali da naso inventati da Salvino Armati…
The first book on the history of spectacles. Manni gave credit for the invention to the Florentine Armati (fl. 1300).
GMN 5991.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7105
1827 AIRY, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)
On a peculiar defect in the eye, and a mode of correcting it.
Airy, Britain's Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, was the first to devise a sphereocylindrical lens for correcting astigmatism, a condition from which he himself suffered in his left eye. Airy's method is still used…
GMN 5847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7171
1978 –1980 POULET, William
Atlas on the history of spectacles. 2 vols.
Vol. 1 catalogues spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of Spectac…
GMN 13656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15937
1996 ROSENTHAL, J. William (1922 – 2007)
Spectacles and other vision aids: A history and guide to collecting.
The most comprehensive history of the development of spectacles and other vision aids in Europe, America, Japan, and China. With over 780 photographs, of which 310 are in color.
GMN 6907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9071
2007 ILARDI, Vincent (1926 – 2009)
Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.
Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…
GMN 7775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9947
