Book ID: CBB163836400

Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity (2023)

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Gemma Almond-Brown (Author)


Manchester University Press
Publication date: 2023
Language: English


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 296

This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists’ attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.

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Authors & Contributors
Wade, Nicholas J.
Doria, Corinne
Atherton, Margaret
Brock, William H.
Brownlee, Peter John
Büttemeyer, Wilhelm
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
British Journal for the History of Science
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Gewina
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Boston University
Ohio State University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Virginia Press
Concepts
Vision
Visual perception
Ophthalmology
Spectacles; eye glasses
Medicine
Psychology
People
Ardigò, Roberto
Berkeley, George
Crookes, William
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin, Erasmus
Grew, Nehemiah
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
10th century
11th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
North America
Netherlands
United States
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