How the invention of the lens helped us see the world more clearly
The glass lens has allowed us to correct our vision, see the furthest objects in the sky, and the smallest objects on the Earth. Oh, and there s photography and film as well.
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Glass lenses have been a boon for myopes and presbyopes around the world, but the evolution of this technology also offers insight into social history.
Neil Handley is the museum curator at the British Optical Association Museum and world-renowned expert in the history of eyeglasses. He says that pinning down the date someone made the first actual set of corrective lenses worn is a difficult thing to do.
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