Facts about eye glasses
The glasses are being traced back since 300 AD and since then they are in a phase of evolution from design to technology. Incredible Stylish New Frames From Zenni are available for any age and numerous designs to choose.
• Legend has it that St. Jerome (c. 340-420 AD) invented glasses.
• The Chinese claim that spectacles originated in Arabia in the 11th century.
• Nero watching gladiatorial contests with an emerald suggests that he used glasses. The emerald may well have had other uses, as a gem, as the sporting of the green colours of the Emperor, as an amulet – for emeralds had a reputation for strengthening the eye – and so on. Presumably Nero was short-sighted, but what is known about his sight rather suggests the photophobia of the albino, for which indeed he may have used green glass as a protective.
• Some ancient Roman patricians overcame vision impairment by getting a slave to read to them- not a significant contribution to the evolution of spectacles!
• In 1268 Roger Bacon made the first known scientific commentary on lenses for vision correction.
• Marco Polo, journeying to China in 1270, is said to have observed elderly Chinese using spectacles.
• Walter Bayley’s Briefe Treatise touching the Preservation of the Eyesight, consisting partly in Good Order of Diet and partly in Use of Medicine, was first published in 1586. Bayley was physician to Queen Elizabeth, but his knowledge of ophthalmology extended to little beyond doubting the efficacy of urine for bathing the eye and recommending ale as strengthening the sight!
• The religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus (340 – 420 AD) is portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of reading glasses. He is the patron saint of spectacle makers.
• John Isaac Hawkins, the inventor of trifocals, coined the term bifocals in 1824 and credited Dr. Benjamin Franklin with their invention.
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