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

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.

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Gemma Almond-Brown
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781526161352
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6135-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history