512558558

Spectacles and the Victorians : Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity

Almond-Brown, Gemma [Verfasser]

1st ed.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)

Social Histories of Medicine Series ; v.47

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978-1-5261-6137-6 ; 978-1-5261-6135-2

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.