Reproductions of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Interest in the History of Physics. 54. The Invention of Spectacles

Watson, E. C.

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Reproductions of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings of Interest in the History of Physics. 54. The Invention of Spectacles

E. C. Watson

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

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E. C. Watson

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Am. J. Phys. 21, 555–558 (1953)

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The invention of spectacles can be dated very approximately by their appearance in early paintings. The history of this invention is here briefly sketched and some of the early paintings in which spectacles appear are reproduced.

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