Spectacles and the Victorians

Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity

(Author) Gemma Almond-Brown
Format: HardCover
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This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

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Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Format:
HardCover
Language:
en
ISBN:
9781526161352
Publish year:
2023
Publish date:
Sept. 5, 2023

Gemma Almond-Brown

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