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11th or 12th century, may have been reading stones. The function of reading stones was replaced by the use of spectacles from the late 13th century onwards...

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses and spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's...

The spectacles in ancient Rome were numerous, open to all citizens and generally free of charge; some of them were distinguished by the grandeur of the...

single frame led to a number of early complications and rendered such spectacles quite fragile. A method for fusing the sections of the lenses together...

A lorgnette (/lɔːˈnjɛt/) is a pair of spectacles with a handle, used to hold them in place, rather than fitting over the ears or nose. The word lorgnette...

eye views distal (i.e. looking through the lens near to the arm of the spectacles) while your left eye views nasal (i.e. looking through the lens near to...

errors: myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Glasses or "spectacles" are worn on the face a short distance in front of the eye. Contact lenses...

the matter, are a few accounts that have Smith putting the spectacles in a hat and reading words off the surface of the stones as they would appear, although...

manifested in the American legal system. His most recent book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, tells the extended tale...

by Argus retinal prosthesis, the camera is an external device held on spectacles, the camera signal is processed and then fed via wires into the retina...

shade of a tree in the mornings. Elenore also recalled his night-time reading of Homer to his children, mixing with fascinating guests for weekend suppers...

contact lenses for functional or optical reasons. When compared with spectacles, contact lenses typically provide better peripheral vision, and do not...

first met the Kerberos in the 1987 radio drama While Waiting for the Red Spectacles's (紅い眼鏡を待ちつつ) Cold Badger Masa assassination episode. Moongaze Ginji and...

presbyopia, and only clergymen tended to be literate enough to require reading glasses. Rimless glasses were first widely offered as pince-nez, with manufacturers...

private prosecutions in an attempt to stop the sale of ready-made reading spectacles. Horkin successfully[specify] fought the actions of the General Optical...

unreliable. Professor Albus Dumbledore, a tall, thin man who wears half-moon spectacles and has silver hair and a beard that tucks into his belt, is the headmaster...

correction § Prism dioptres Vertometer Rosenthal, J. William (1996). Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to Collecting. Norman. p. 32...

as ruins today. The local ruling elite were responsible for sponsoring spectacles and arena events, which both enhanced their status and drained their resources...

disordered upbringing, James Carlyle became deeply religious in his youth, reading many books of sermons and doctrinal arguments throughout his life. He married...

optician is anyone who prepares, fits, and dispenses prescription lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, or any other type of vision-correcting optical...